LessWrong
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LessWrong is an online community and forum focused on rationality, cognitive bias, and effective decision-making, originally inspired by and closely related to the ideas developed on the blog Overcoming Bias.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| LessWrong canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T7272324 — resolving that mention is where its identity was fixed. The disambiguator weighed these candidate entities and picked the highlighted one (or “None”, minting a new entity). This is how homonymy is resolved: the same surface form can point to different entities.
Target entity: LessWrong Context triple: [Overcoming Bias, associatedWith, LessWrong]
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Rationality: What It Is, Why It Seems Scarce, Why It Matters
"Rationality: What It Is, Why It Seems Scarce, Why It Matters" is a non-fiction book by cognitive psychologist Steven Pinker that explores the nature of human reasoning, why people often think irrationally, and how better reasoning can improve individual and societal decision-making.
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MIRI
MIRI is the Mid-Infrared Instrument on the James Webb Space Telescope, designed to capture detailed images and spectra of celestial objects in the mid-infrared range.
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Open Philanthropy
Open Philanthropy is a research-driven grantmaking organization that aims to maximize global impact by funding high-priority causes such as global health, animal welfare, and existential risk reduction.
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Knowledge and Human Interests
Knowledge and Human Interests is a seminal 1968 work of critical social theory by Jürgen Habermas that analyzes how different human interests shape the forms and purposes of knowledge.
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Centre for Effective Altruism
The Centre for Effective Altruism is a nonprofit organization that promotes and coordinates the effective altruism movement, helping individuals and groups use evidence and reason to do the most good.
- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
Target entity: LessWrong Target entity description: LessWrong is an online community and forum focused on rationality, cognitive bias, and effective decision-making, originally inspired by and closely related to the ideas developed on the blog Overcoming Bias.
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A.
Rationality: What It Is, Why It Seems Scarce, Why It Matters
"Rationality: What It Is, Why It Seems Scarce, Why It Matters" is a non-fiction book by cognitive psychologist Steven Pinker that explores the nature of human reasoning, why people often think irrationally, and how better reasoning can improve individual and societal decision-making.
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B.
MIRI
MIRI is the Mid-Infrared Instrument on the James Webb Space Telescope, designed to capture detailed images and spectra of celestial objects in the mid-infrared range.
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C.
Open Philanthropy
Open Philanthropy is a research-driven grantmaking organization that aims to maximize global impact by funding high-priority causes such as global health, animal welfare, and existential risk reduction.
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D.
Knowledge and Human Interests
Knowledge and Human Interests is a seminal 1968 work of critical social theory by Jürgen Habermas that analyzes how different human interests shape the forms and purposes of knowledge.
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E.
Centre for Effective Altruism
The Centre for Effective Altruism is a nonprofit organization that promotes and coordinates the effective altruism movement, helping individuals and groups use evidence and reason to do the most good.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
discussion forum
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online community ⓘ rationalist community ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
Eliezer Yudkowsky
NERFINISHED
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Machine Intelligence Research Institute NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| communityInfluence |
effective altruism community
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rationalist movement NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| encourages |
Bayesian updating
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charity in argument ⓘ explicit reasoning ⓘ prediction and calibration ⓘ reductionism ⓘ |
| focusesOn |
cognitive biases
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effective decision-making ⓘ epistemic rationality ⓘ instrumental rationality ⓘ rationality ⓘ |
| foundedBy | Eliezer Yudkowsky NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| geographicFocus | global ⓘ |
| hasArchive | Overcoming Bias posts cross-posted ⓘ |
| hasFeature |
comment threads
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karma system ⓘ sequences ⓘ tagging system ⓘ user-generated posts ⓘ |
| hasNotableContent |
Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality discussion
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Sequences by Eliezer Yudkowsky NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasOfflineActivity | rationalist meetups ⓘ |
| hasSubcommunity | LessWrong 2.0 NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| inspiredBy | Overcoming Bias NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| launchedIn | 2009 ⓘ |
| license | Creative Commons for many posts ⓘ |
| name | LessWrong NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| originallyHostedOn | lesswrong.com NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| publishes |
essays on artificial intelligence risk
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essays on cognitive science ⓘ essays on decision theory ⓘ essays on rationality ⓘ |
| relatedTo | Overcoming Bias NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| selfDescription | community blog devoted to refining the art of human rationality ⓘ |
| softwarePlatform | custom web platform ⓘ |
| topic |
AI alignment
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Bayesian reasoning ⓘ effective altruism NERFINISHED ⓘ existential risk ⓘ heuristics and biases ⓘ |
| websiteType |
community blog
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discussion board ⓘ |
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You are a knowledge base construction expert. Given a subject entity and a description of it, return factual statements that you know for the subject as a JSON list of dictionaries(triples), where keys must be "subject", "predicate" and "object". The number of facts may be very high, between 25 to 50 or more, for very popular subjects. For less popular subjects, the number of facts can be very low, like 5 or 10. # Requirements - If you don't know the subject at all, return an empty list. - If the subject is not a named entity, return an empty list. - Include at least one triple where predicate is "instanceOf". - Do not get too wordy. - Separate several objects into multiple triples with one object.
Subject: LessWrong Description of subject: LessWrong is an online community and forum focused on rationality, cognitive bias, and effective decision-making, originally inspired by and closely related to the ideas developed on the blog Overcoming Bias.
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