Ari Schulman mocks LessWrong for having no literary memory before 2009
inductionheads · x · 2026-09-18
New Atlantis editor Ari Schulman took a jab at the LessWrong rationalist community, joking that it seems to have no Western literary memory prior to 2009 — the year the site was founded — because members act as if ideas were only invented from then on. A witty swipe at the AI community's cultural insularity.
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