| 词条 | LessWrong |
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| name = LessWrong | logo = LessWrong logo.svg | logo_size = 250px | logocaption = | screenshot = | caption = | collapsible = | collapsetext = | url = {{URL|https://www.lesswrong.com/|LessWrong.com}} | commercial = | type = Internet forum, blog | registration = Optional, but is required for contributing content | language = English | num_users = | content_license = | owner = | author = Eliezer Yudkowsky | editor = | launch_date = {{start date and age|2009|02|01|df=no}} | revenue = | alexa = {{IncreaseNegative}} 77,017 {{small|{{nowrap|(Global, March 2018)}}}} | ip = | current_status = Active | footnotes = | programming_language = JavaScript, CSS (powered by React and GraphQL) }}LessWrong, also written as Less Wrong, is a community blog and forum focused on discussion of cognitive biases, philosophy, psychology, economics, rationality, and artificial intelligence, among other topics.[1][2] PurposeLessWrong promotes lifestyle changes believed{{bywhom|date=February 2019}} to lead to increased rationality and self-improvement. Posts often focus on avoiding biases related to decision-making and the evaluation of evidence. One suggestion is the use of Bayes' theorem as a decision-making tool.[2] There is also a focus on psychological barriers that prevent good decision-making, including fear conditioning[3] and cognitive biases that have been studied by the psychologist Daniel Kahneman.[4] HistoryLessWrong developed from Overcoming Bias, an earlier group blog focused on human rationality, which began in November 2006, with artificial intelligence theorist Eliezer Yudkowsky and economist Robin Hanson as the principal contributors. In February 2009, Yudkowsky's posts were used as the seed material to create the community blog LessWrong, and Overcoming Bias became Hanson's personal blog.[5] In 2017, it was announced that Weidenfeld & Nicolson would be publishing a book about LessWrong by former BuzzFeed science correspondent Tom Chivers.[6] Roko's basiliskIn July 2010, LessWrong contributor Roko posted a thought experiment similar to Pascal's Wager to the site in which an otherwise benevolent future AI system tortures simulations of those who did not work to bring the system into existence. This idea came to be known as "Roko's basilisk," based on Roko's idea that merely hearing about the idea would give the hypothetical AI system stronger incentives to employ blackmail. Yudkowsky deleted Roko's posts on the topic, saying that posting it was "stupid". Discussion of Roko's basilisk was banned on LessWrong for several years[7][8] before the ban was lifted in October 2015.[9] Cracked called Roko's basilisk "the dumbest thing on the entire Internet" and described the thought experiment as "utter nonsense but also the perfect expression of the personality problems of all involved...They trapped themselves in a thought experiment of their own making, a prison whose only bars are how smart they think they are."[10] David Auerbach wrote in Slate "the combination of messianic ambitions, being convinced of your own infallibility, and a lot of cash never works out well, regardless of ideology, and I don’t expect Yudkowsky and his cohorts to be an exception. I worry less about Roko’s Basilisk than about people who believe themselves to have transcended conventional morality."[8]Allusions to Roko's basilisk in popular culture include the actions of the character Gilfoyle in Season 5, Episode 5 of Silicon Valley,[11] the character Roccoco Basilisk in Grimes' video for "Flesh Without Blood", explicitly named for Roko's basilisk,[12] the plot of Magnus: Robot Fighter #8 by Fred Van Lente,[13] and various webcomics such as xkcd{{'}}s "AI-Box Experiment"[14] and Questionable Content{{'}}s AI Police Officer Roko Basilisk.[15] NeoreactionThe neoreactionary movement first grew on LessWrong,[16][17][18] attracted by discussions on the site of eugenics and evolutionary psychology.[19] Yudkowsky has strongly repudiated neoreaction.[18][20][21] Effective altruismLessWrong played a role in the development of the effective altruism movement.[22] References1. ^{{cite web|url=http://wiki.lesswrong.com/wiki/FAQ#What_is_Less_Wrong.3F|title = Less Wrong FAQ|publisher = LessWrong}} 2. ^1 {{cite web|url=http://www.businessinsider.com/ten-things-you-should-learn-from-lesswrongcom-2011-7|title = You Can Learn How To Become More Rational|last = Miller|first = James|publisher = Business Insider|date = July 28, 2011|accessdate = March 25, 2014}} 3. ^{{cite web|url=https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2011/jul/08/change-your-life-ugh-fields|title = This column will change your life: Feel the ugh and do it anyway. Can the psychological flinch mechanism be beaten?|last = Burkeman|first = Oliver|date = July 8, 2011|accessdate = March 25, 2014|publisher = The Guardian}} 4. ^{{cite web|url=https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2012/mar/09/change-life-answer-easier-question|title = This column will change your life: asked a tricky question? Answer an easier one. We all do it, all the time. So how can we get rid of this eccentricity?|last = Burkeman|first = Oliver|date = March 9, 2012|accessdate = March 25, 2014|publisher = The Guardian}} 5. ^{{cite web|url=http://wiki.lesswrong.com/wiki/FAQ#Where_did_Less_Wrong_come_from.3F|title = Where did Less Wrong come from? (LessWrong FAQ)|accessdate = March 25, 2014}} 6. ^{{cite web|last1=Cowdrey|first1=Katherine|title=W&N wins Buzzfeed science reporter's debut after auction|url=https://www.thebookseller.com/news/wn-wins-three-way-auction-buzzfeed-science-reporters-debut-642406|website=The Bookseller|accessdate=2017-09-21}} 7. ^{{cite web | url=http://www.businessinsider.com/what-is-rokos-basilisk-2014-8 | title=WARNING: Just Reading About This Thought Experiment Could Ruin Your Life | publisher=Business Insider | date=6 August 2014 | accessdate=6 December 2014 | author=Love, Dylan}} 8. ^1 {{cite news|last1=Auerbach|first1=David|authorlink=David Auerbach|title=The Most Terrifying Thought Experiment of All Time|url=http://www.slate.com/articles/technology/bitwise/2014/07/roko_s_basilisk_the_most_terrifying_thought_experiment_of_all_time.single.html|accessdate=18 July 2014|work=Slate|date=17 July 2014}} 9. ^{{cite web|url=http://lesswrong.com/r/discussion/lw/mge/a_few_misconceptions_surrounding_rokos_basilisk/|quote=The Roko's basilisk ban isn't in effect anymore|author=RobbBB|date=5 October 2015|accessdate=10 April 2016|title= A few misconceptions surrounding Roko's basilisk |publisher=LessWrong}} 10. ^{{Cite web |url=http://www.cracked.com/blog/5-pettiest-misuses-world-changing-technology/ |title=5 Hilariously Petty Abuses Of Revolutionary Technologies |last=McKinney |first=Luke |date=2015-09-24 |website=Cracked.com |access-date=2019-01-28}} 11. ^{{Cite web|url=http://www.vulture.com/2018/04/silicon-valley-recap-season-5-episode-5.html|title=Silicon Valley Recap: The Terminator Problem|last=Henderson|first=Odie|date=2018-04-23|website=Vulture|archive-url=|archive-date=|dead-url=|access-date=2018-04-23}} 12. ^{{Cite web|url=http://www.fuse.tv/videos/2015/12/grimes-fuse-first-interview-flesh-without-blood|title=Grimes Explains the 4 Characters in Her "Flesh Without Blood" Video: Exclusive|last=Benjamin|first=Jeff|date=7 December 2015|website=Fuse|archive-url=|archive-date=|dead-url=|access-date=2017-06-09|quote=She's doomed to be eternally tortured by an artificial intelligence, but she's also kind of like Marie Antoinette.}} 13. ^{{Cite web|url=https://www.bleedingcool.com/2014/11/22/turning-the-gold-key-frank-barbiere-talks-with-fred-van-lente-about-mangus-robot-fighter/|title=Turning The Gold Key - Frank Barbiere Talks With Fred Van Lente About Mangus: Robot Fighter|last=Wickline|first=Dan|date=2014-11-22|website=Bleeding Cool|archive-url=|archive-date=|dead-url=|access-date=2017-06-09}} 14. ^{{cite web|url=https://xkcd.com/1450/|title=xkcd: AI-Box Experiment|website=xkcd.com}} 15. ^{{cite web|url=https://www.questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=3362|title=Questionable Content|website=www.questionablecontent.net}} 16. ^{{cite web|url=https://techcrunch.com/2013/11/22/geeks-for-monarchy/|title = Geeks for Monarchy: The Rise of the Neoreactionaries|last = Finley|first = Klint|date = November 22, 2013|accessdate = March 25, 2014|publisher = TechCrunch}} 17. ^{{Cite journal|last=Riggio|first=Adam|date=23 September 2016|title=The Violence of Pure Reason: Neoreaction: A Basilisk|url=https://social-epistemology.com/2016/09/23/the-violence-of-pure-reason-neoreaction-a-basilisk-adam-riggio/|journal=Social Epistemology Review and Reply Collective|volume=5|issue=9|pages=34–41|issn=2471-9560|quote=The embryo of the movement lived in the community pages of Yudkowsky’s blog LessWrong, a website dedicated to refining human rationality.}} 18. ^1 {{Cite news|url=https://www.faz.net/1.4953248|title=Neoreaktion im Silicon Valley: Wenn Maschinen denken|last=Siemons|first=Mark|date=2017-04-14|work=Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung|access-date=2019-03-23|language=de|issn=0174-4909}} 19. ^{{Cite web|url=http://fusion.net/story/312592/peter-thiel-transhumanist/|title=The Strange and Conflicting World Views of Silicon Valley Billionaire Peter Thiel|last=Keep|first=Elmo|date=22 June 2016|website=Fusion|publisher=|access-date=2016-10-05|quote=Thanks to LessWrong’s discussions of eugenics and evolutionary psychology, it has attracted some readers and commenters affiliated with the alt-right and neoreaction, that broad cohort of neofascist, white nationalist and misogynist trolls.}} 20. ^{{Cite journal|last=Riggio|first=Adam|date=23 September 2016|title=The Violence of Pure Reason: Neoreaction: A Basilisk|url=https://social-epistemology.com/2016/09/23/the-violence-of-pure-reason-neoreaction-a-basilisk-adam-riggio/|journal=Social Epistemology Review and Reply Collective|volume=5|issue=9|pages=34–41|issn=2471-9560|quote=Land and Yarvin are openly allies with the new reactionary movement, while Yudkowsky counts many reactionaries among his fanbase despite finding their racist politics disgusting. }} 21. ^{{cite web|url=http://yudkowsky.tumblr.com/post/142497361345/this-isnt-going-to-work-but-for-the-record-and|title=Untitled|author=Eliezer Yudkowsky|date=8 April 2016|work=Optimize Literally Everything (blog)|accessdate=7 October 2016}} 22. ^{{cite book|last1=de Lazari-Radek|first1=Katarzyna|last2=Singer|first2=Peter|title=Utilitarianism: A Very Short Introduction|date=2017-09-27|publisher=Oxford University Press|page=110}} External links
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