Diaspora Map-Test
The LessWrong Diaspora is a set of loosely affiliated, often independent blogs and social networks which sprung up from the ruins of the community blog LessWrong. Diaspora ranges from the rigorously serious venues focused on existential risk or philosophy, to what are essentially cyber orgies of particularly high Openness people who have shared culture.
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Blogs
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Adjacent Blogs
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| Blog Name | Author | Purpose/Focus | Example Post |
|---|---|---|---|
| Slate Star Scratchpad | Scott Alexander | Psychology Medicine Philosophy History Sociology Culture Wars Problems In Society Politics Whale Puns | “Today at the child hospital, I asked a kid if he knew what his diagnosis was...” |
| Ragged Jack Scarlet | Anonymous | Sociology Insight Porn Memes Psychology Culture Wars | Mythic Values/Folk Values |
| Academician Zex | Anonymous | Alcoholism Homosexuality Sexuality Memes Cute Animals Culture Wars Cartoons Video Games | The 80/20 rule and the addiction lobby |
| Wirehead Wannabe | Anonymous | Depression Suicide Youth Rights Politics Culture Wars | “I gotta admit...” |
Forums
| Forum Name | Forum Type | Topic Focus | Administrator(s) | Moderation Type | Updated |
| Name of the forum. eg. LessWrong | What ”kind” of forum it is. For example LessWrong might be described as “community blog”, Reddit as “link aggregator”. | What the forum is about. For example LessWrong might be described as “Attempts to explore ‘the art of human rationality’.” | Who is the head moderator or maintainer of the forum. For example LessWrong when it was founded would have been Eliezer Yudkowsky. | Loose, Medium, or Strict. Loose being none to very little, Strict being “goofing off gets you banned in 15 minutes”, and Medium being somewhere in between. | The date that the entry was last touched in YYYY-MM-DD format. eg. 2017-10-06. |
| LessWrong 2.0 | Community Blog | Attempting the creation of a 'rationality canon'. | Vaniver, Oliver Habryka | Medium | 2019-01-06 |
| Whistling Lobsters | Link Aggregator | "Whistling Lobsters aims to stand at the intersection of interesting, useful, and excellent." | Obormot | Strict | 2017-10-06 |
| /r/slatestarcodex | Subreddit | Slate Star Codex community and related topics | Bakkot, _Vulture_, coderman9, PM_ME_UR_OBSIDIAN, ScottAlexander, tailcalled, werttrew, utilsucks, cjet79 | Medium | 2017-10-07 |
| /r/rational | Subreddit | Rational and rationalist fiction | ParidexisErrant, alexanderwales, eaturbrainz | Loose | 2017-10-09 |
| /r/HPMOR | Subreddit | Analysis of "Harry Potter and The Methods of Rationality" | jaiwithani, V2Blast, EliezerYudkowsky, bbrazil, noking, alexanderwales | Loose | 2017-10-09 |
| Effective Altruism Forum | Community Blog | This forum brings together people who want to change the world, to make plans and share announcements. | Larissa Hesketh-Rowe, Julia Wise | Medium | 2017-10-09 |
| Omnilibrium | Debate Forum | Rational Discussion of Controversial Topics | Unknown | Medium | 2017-10-09 |
| Cafe Chesscourt | BBS | A forum for the rationalist community | theojones | Medium | 2017-10-15 |
Chatrooms