LessWrong* was founded in 2009 and relaunched in 2018 with a new codebase and full-time team.*We are a community dedicated to improving our reasoning and decision-making. We seek to hold true beliefs and to be effective at accomplishing our goals. More generally, we work to develop and practice the art of human rationality.[1]**To that end, LessWrong is a place to 1) develop and train rationality, and 2) apply one’s rationality to real-world problems.**LessWrong serves these purposes with its library of rationality writings, community discussion forum, open questions research platform, and community page for in-person events.To get a feel for what LessWrong is about, check out our Concepts page, or view this selection of LessWrong posts which might appeal to you:

• What is rationality and why care about it? Try Your intuitions are not magic and The Cognitive Science of Rationality.
• Curious about the mind? You might enjoy How An Algorithm Feels From The Inside and The Apologist and the Revolutionary.
• Keen on self-improvement? Remember that Humans are not automatically strategic.
• Care about argument and evidence? Consider Policy Debates Should Not Appear One-Sided and How To Convince Me that 2 + 2 = 3.
• Interested in how to use language well? Be aware of 37 Ways That Words Can Be Wrong.
• Want to teach yourself something? We compiled a list of The Best Textbooks on Every Subject.
• Like probability and statistics? Around here we're fans of Bayesianism, you might like this interactive guide to Bayes' theorem (hosted on Arbital.com).
• Of an altruistic mindset? We recommend On Caring.

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