Special Threads

This is a collection of interesting discussion threads that have appeared on Less Wrong.

Periodic threads

These special threads are created periodically. (All links lead to the latest thread.)

• Welcome to LessWrong! (2012): introduce yourself here if you are new
• Open Thread, April 1-15, 2012: posted fortnightly to collect "random" topics not deserving a whole post
• Rationality Quotes April 2012: posted monthly to collect quotes of interest
• What are you working on? April 2012: posted bimonthly for discussing users' current projects
• Media Thread, May 2012: posted monthly to collect recommendations/reviews for media (books, movies, anime etc)
• HPMoR Discussion thread, part 13: Chapter 81: posted sporadically for discussing the fanfic Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality

One-time threads

• Tell Us Your Rationalist Origin Story
• The Most Important Thing You've Learned, The Most Frequently Useful Thing, That You'd Tell All Your Friends (may be useful for finding interesting posts to read)

Technical

• Issues and bugs: use this bug tracker to raise issues about blog's underlying software (open-ended discussion of suggestions is more appropriate in open threads)
• Here is some information about contributing to the Less Wrong code base

Archived

• Previous welcome threads:
  • 2010
  • original thread
• All threads for rationality quotes
• Some open threads (not all open threads are tagged with open_thread)
• All 'What are you working on?' threads
• All media threads
• Where we are: a hierarchically organized thread for locating other Less Wrong users (somewhat obsolete due to new meetup system).