Eliezer Yudkowsky and LessWrong were crucial influences on Scott Alexander's intellectual development and blog-writing career, helping him transition from a 'boring normie liberal' worldview to more sophisticated reasoning about AI, rationality, and long-term thinking.
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“So I owe a huge debt of gratitude to Eliezer Yudkowski. I had a live journal before that. But it was going on LessWrong that convinced me I could move to the big times.”
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AI 2027: month-by-month model of intelligence explosion — Scott Alexander & Daniel Kokotajlo— Dwarkesh PatelCreated: 8/11/2026, 7:03:29 AM
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