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.

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