---
license: mit
task_categories:
- text-generation
tags:
- philosophy
- lesswrong
- long-sequences
- posts
size_categories:
- 10K<n<100K
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# What is LessWrong?

LessWrong is a community blog and forum dedicated to improving human reasoning and decision-making, aiming to help people hold more accurate beliefs and be more effective, or "less wrong," daily.
This dataset contains over twenty-six thousand posts from 2009 and onward.

## Stats

| Key                  | Value          |
|----------------------|----------------|
| Entries              | 26,517         |
| Total Tokens (GPT2)  | 96,399,665     |
| Total Words          | 53,966,975     |
| Avg Tokens / Entry   | 3,635.39       |
| Avg Words / Entry    | 2,035.18       |

We counted the tokens using [GPT2's](https://huggingface.co/openai-community/gpt2) tokenizer. 

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## Use Cases

Pretraining and fine-tuning language models on long-form rationalist and AI-safety discourse.