[throwaway9274]

Twenty years ago was 2003. There are dozens of examples of AI x-risk thought experiments dating back to 1960.

As far as I can tell, all he did was open a forum for people to write fanfic about these earlier ideas.

[bondarchuk]

I opened the lesswrong homepage through archive.org on an arbitrary date in 2010, where I found a post about raising $100000 for a grant program. Most of that went towards papers and fellowships at the singularity institute AFAICT.

https://web.archive.org/web/20100304171507/http://lesswrong....