This is a report from a LessWrong perspective, on the 30th Soar workshop. Soar is a cognitive architecture that has been in continuous development for nearly 30 years, and is in a direct line of descent from some of the earliest AI research (Simon's LT and GPS). Soar is interesting to LessWrong readers for two reasons:

1. Soar is a cognitive science theory, and has had some success at modeling human reasoning - this is relevant to the central theme of LessWrong, improving human rationality.
2. Soar is an AGI research project - this is relevant to the AGI risks sub-theme of LessWrong.