Situating the Contributions of LessWrong to the Philosophy of Language

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Situating the Contributions of LessWrong to the Philosophy of Language S. Reason 2021 Introduction In 2020, I offered bounties to anyone able identify clear precedents, in mainstream philosophy, for ideas advanced by Eliezer Yudkowsky or Scott Alexander as their own. This was in service of a larger project of better understanding the intellectual contribution of LessWrong, against a backdrop of criticism that LessWrong had “badly reinvented” much of analytic philosophy. LessWrong was founded in the late 2000s by Yudkowsky, bringing with him audiences built up from Overcoming Bias, the…

Situating the Contributions of LessWrong to the Philosophy of Language

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