Rationalism

Epistemological view centered on reason

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2023
LessWrong
Community Survey conducted among 558 LessWrong users, providing detailed demographics of the platform's user base, including gender, age, nationality, ethnicity, education, professional background, religious beliefs, and political orientation.
2020
LessWrong
A survey showed that only 8.2% of effective altruists first heard about the movement through LessWrong, a significant decrease from the 31% in 2014.
2019
LessWrong
Tom Chivers published 'The AI Does Not Hate You', a book focusing on LessWrong and its surrounding movement's work on artificial intelligence, written by a former BuzzFeed science correspondent.
2016
LessWrong
A LessWrong user survey was conducted, with 664 out of 3,060 respondents (21.7%) identifying as 'effective altruists'.
2014
LessWrong
A survey of effective altruists revealed that 31% of respondents first learned about the Effective Altruism (EA) movement through LessWrong.

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