Less Wrong Slack

LessWrong has a Slack group!

Slack is a communication tool, to exchange and discuss about various topics. The LW Slack looks like a chatroom and works like a chatroom, with emphasis on topic-centered channels to enable multiple discussions running in parallel at different paces.

To join us, please send a message to LessWrong user Elo with your email address.

There is also an active Russian group at http://slack.lesswrong.ru/. It is all in russian.

Goals of the group

The following sums up and expands on the founding post.

We aim for constructive and charitable conversations between LessWrongers, including (but not limited to):

• steelmanning in debates
• respect of others
• patience

Our many goals and purposes include (the list is growing):

• Productive conversations (making progress is key)
• Learning, information and experience exchange
• Life advice in all kinds of areas, outsourcing of decisions (when effective)
• Collaborative creation of fresh rationality content
• Safe space for friendly rational conversation on the Internet (a nice place to hang out)
• A more coherent and strongly connected Less Wrong
• Development of ideas and strategies to improve the world, personally

Channels

This list is non-exhaustive.

Name	Topic
open	Open conversation (water cooler)
welcome	Introductions
ai	Artificial Intelligence
art_and_media	Books, movies, media in general
business_and_startups	Startups, industry and business
effective_altruism	Effective altruism
goals_of_lesswrong	Meta-discussion about the LW main site, the LW Slack and rationality
human_relationships	Social intelligence and interactions
parenting	Parenting advice and education
philosophy	Philosophy
programming	Computer Science, hacking and learning
projects	Personal projects, feedback and accountability
real_life_advice	Practical advice and life hacks
science_n_technology	Scientific concepts, discussion over state of the art and possible achievements