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 as of January 1st, 2013.)

• Welcome to LessWrong! (July 2012): introduce yourself here if you are new
• Open Thread, January 1-15, 2013: posted fortnightly to collect "random" topics not deserving a whole post
• Rationality Quotes January 2013: posted monthly to collect quotes of interest
• What are you working on? August 2012: posted bimonthly for discussing users' current projects
• Media Thread, November 2012: posted monthly to collect recommendations/reviews for media (books, movies, anime etc)
• HPMoR Discussion thread, part 16: Chapter 85: 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).