r/LessWrong↗
Less Wrong
Raising the sanity waterline
12k subscribers48 posts / mo in Sep 202638 authors / mosince 2010
r/LessWrong has 12k members (+27% over the last 12 months). It gets about 48 posts a month from 38 people. Top topics: AI Dangers & Ethics, AGI Discussions and AI Apocalypse.
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- AI Dangers & Ethics0.9%
- AGI Discussions0.7%
- AI Apocalypse0.6%
- Philosophy Discussions0.6%
- Happiness Key0.4%
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- Substack
- ChatGPT
- Zenodo
- Doi
- arXiv.org e-Print archive
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