Welcome to The Nonlinear Library, where we use Text-to-Speech software to convert the best writing from the Rationalist and EA communities into audio. This is: Citability of Lesswrong and the Alignment Forum, published by Leon Lang on January 8, 2023 on LessWrong.

This post is short: as far as I know, there is no easy support to cite lesswrong or the alignment forum in academic papers. I think this should exist. This idea is related to the one on putting Alignment Forum/Lesswrong posts on arxiv.

Such support already exists elsewhere, e.g. on Mathoverflow:

I didn't try for long to figure out if this idea was already proposed before or whether there is already support for this which I missed.

Thanks to Nadia Montazeri and Magdalena Wache for discussing this idea with me.

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