Item | Value |
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Other names | LessWrong |
Country | United States |
Facebook username | lesswrong2 |
Website | lesswrong.com |
Team page | https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/aG74jJkiPccqdkK3c/the-lesswrong-team |
Launch date | 2017-06-18 |
Wikipedia page | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LessWrong |
Last recorded date when we made major data updates for this org | 2023-01-30 |
Donations List Website (data still preliminary) | donee |
Hover over a name to see the position and date range. This table only includes positions where at least the start date is known. The positions count can count the same person multiple times if they held different positions; similarly, the list of staff may include the same person multiple times if they held more than one position during a single year. For each year, a person is included if they were at the organization for any part of the year; this means the actual staff count at any point during the year can be lower (or higher, if some staff held multiple positions in a single year).
Year | Positions count | Researchers | General staff | Associates | Board members | Advisors |
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2017 | 7 | Ben Albert Pace, Eric Rogstad, Harmanas Chopra, Kaj Sotala, Matthew Graves, Oliver Habryka, Raymond Arnold | ||||
2018 | 8 | Ben Albert Pace, Eric Rogstad, Harmanas Chopra, Kaj Sotala, Matthew Graves, Oliver Habryka, Raymond Arnold, Ruben Bloom | ||||
2019 | 8 | Ben Albert Pace, Eric Rogstad, Harmanas Chopra, Kaj Sotala, Matthew Graves, Oliver Habryka, Raymond Arnold, Ruben Bloom | ||||
2020 | 8 | Ben Albert Pace, Eric Rogstad, Harmanas Chopra, Kaj Sotala, Matthew Graves, Oliver Habryka, Raymond Arnold, Ruben Bloom | ||||
2021 | 8 | Ben Albert Pace, Eric Rogstad, Harmanas Chopra, Kaj Sotala, Matthew Graves, Oliver Habryka, Raymond Arnold, Ruben Bloom | ||||
2022 | 7 | Ben Albert Pace, Eric Rogstad, Harmanas Chopra, Kaj Sotala, Matthew Graves, Oliver Habryka, Raymond Arnold | ||||
2023 | 7 | Ben Albert Pace, Eric Rogstad, Harmanas Chopra, Kaj Sotala, Matthew Graves, Oliver Habryka, Raymond Arnold |
The following table lists some dates and people who were at the organization on the given date (namely, the start of the year). The table may not list every person who worked for the organization (e.g. they could have joined and left in the middle of a single year). This table excludes associates, interns, advisors, and board members.
Date | Staff count | Staff |
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2018-01-01 | 4 | Ben Albert Pace, Kaj Sotala, Oliver Habryka, Raymond Arnold |
2019-01-01 | 5 | Ben Albert Pace, Kaj Sotala, Oliver Habryka, Raymond Arnold, Ruben Bloom |
2020-01-01 | 5 | Ben Albert Pace, Kaj Sotala, Oliver Habryka, Raymond Arnold, Ruben Bloom |
2021-01-01 | 5 | Ben Albert Pace, Kaj Sotala, Oliver Habryka, Raymond Arnold, Ruben Bloom |
2022-01-01 | 4 | Ben Albert Pace, Kaj Sotala, Oliver Habryka, Raymond Arnold |
2023-01-01 | 4 | Ben Albert Pace, Kaj Sotala, Oliver Habryka, Raymond Arnold |
This table shows the full change history of positions. Each row corresponds to at least one addition or removal of a position. Additions are in green and subtractions are in red. If a position name changed, it is listed simultaneously as an addition (of the new name) and removal (of the old name) and colored yellow. Additionally there are faded variants of each color for visited links.
Date | Number of positions | Number of positions added | Number of positions removed | Positions added | Positions removed |
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2 | 2 | 0 | Elizabeth V, James Babcock | ||
2017-06-01 | 7 | 5 | 0 | Ben Albert Pace, Eric Rogstad, Harmanas Chopra, Matthew Graves, Oliver Habryka | |
2017-09-01 | 9 | 2 | 0 | Kaj Sotala, Raymond Arnold | |
2018-09-01 | 10 | 1 | 0 | Ruben Bloom | |
2021-07-01 | 9 | 0 | -1 | Ruben Bloom |
Person | Title | Start date | End date | Employment type | Source | Notes |
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Oliver Habryka | Developer | 2017-06-01 | full-time | [1], [2], [3], [4], [5] | ||
Matthew Graves | 2017-06-01 | [2], [3], [6] | ||||
Ben Albert Pace | Core Team | 2017-06-01 | [2], [3], [6], [5] | |||
Raymond Arnold | Core Team | 2017-09-01 | [2], [3], [6], [4], [5] | |||
Harmanas Chopra | 2017-06-01 | [3], [6] | ||||
Eric Rogstad | 2017-06-01 | [3], [6] | ||||
James Babcock | Chief technology officer | full-time | [7], [8] | |||
Ruben Bloom | Co-Founder | 2018-09-01 | 2021-07-01 | [7], [9], [5], [9] | ||
Kaj Sotala | Moderator | 2017-09-01 | [7], [10], [5] | |||
Elizabeth V | Moderator | [11], [5] |
Name | Creation date | Description |
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AI Alignment Forum | 2018-07-10 | A group blog for discussion of technical aspects of AI alignment. The forum is built using the same software as LessWrong 2.0, and is integrated with LessWrong 2.0. For creation date, see [12]. |
LessWrong 2.0 | 2017-06-18 | A community blog about rationality, decision theory, AI, the rationality community, and other topics relevant to AI safety. This is a re-launch/modernization of the original LessWrong. For the launch date, the date of the welcome post [13] is used. |
Title | Publication date | Author | Publisher | Affected organizations | Affected people | Document scope | Cause area | Notes |
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I currently work for Less Wrong, as the fourth of four people on the team. We recently considered hiring, and trialed a few candidates, but decided not to for now. | 2019-01-28 | Jim Babcock | Jeff Kaufman | LessWrong 2.0 | Oliver Habryka, Ben Pace, Raymond Arnold, Jim Babcock | Hiring-related notice | Rationality improvement | Jim Babcock, the fourth person to join LessWrong 2.0 (after Oliver Habryka, Ben Pace, and Raymond Arnold) describes why, after initially looking for a while for more developers to join the organization, they ultimately decided not to hire for now unless they found an exceptional candidate. The comment is in response to a post "Simultaneous Shortage and Oversupply" by Jeff Kaufman, noting that a lot of people are interested in applying to organizations related to effective altruism, but the organizations still take a long time to fill their job postings |
LessWrong is hiring | 2018-06-18 | Oliver Habryka | LessWrong 2.0 | LessWrong 2.0 | Oliver Habryka, Ben Pace, Raymond Arnold | Hiring-related notice | Rationality improvement | Announcement that LessWrong 2.0 is looking for somebody to fill a Chief Technology Officer (CTO) role. Criteria are experience as a programmer and excitement about the long-term vision. The salary range is $70,000 to $120,000, though higher salaries are possible. The post and comments also reveal that the current employees are Oliver Habryka, Raymond Arnold, and Ben Pace, and they all make $60,000 a year. Comments also reiterate previously documented funding sources: Berkeley Existential Risk Initiative, EA Grants, and individual donors such as Eric Rogstad |
Title | Publication date | Author | Publisher | Affected organizations | Affected people | Affected agendas | Notes |
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Organization | Number of people in common | List of people in common |
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Center for Applied Rationality | 3 | Oliver Habryka, Matthew Graves, Eric Rogstad |
Machine Intelligence Research Institute | 3 | Oliver Habryka, Matthew Graves, Kaj Sotala |
Centre for Effective Altruism | 1 | Oliver Habryka |
Effective Altruism Funds | 1 | Oliver Habryka |
Berkeley Existential Risk Initiative | 1 | Eric Rogstad |
Survival and Flourishing.Fund | 1 | Eric Rogstad |
Survival and Flourishing.Org | 1 | Eric Rogstad |
Foundational Research Institute | 1 | Kaj Sotala |