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Metascience
Intellectual property
31 posts
Scientific progress
Steven Pinker
The Roots of Progress
166
Liars
Kelsey Piper
8mo
30
13
Metascience/Progress: Michael Nielsen interview/podcast
Ben Yeoh
1mo
2
112
The FDA demanded my employer bury inconvenient clinical trial data. What should I do?
Throwaway641
8mo
14
84
Solving the replication crisis (FTX proposal)
Michael_Wiebe
7mo
19
12
[link post] A Vision of Metascience by Michael Nielsen and Kanjun Qie
joshcmorrison
2mo
2
23
Developing interventions for promoting prosocial behavior might be more cost-effective at increasing well-being than providing psychotherapy
Falk Lieder
5mo
5
102
Why scientific research is less effective in producing value than it could be: a mapping
C Tilli
1y
32
17
[Cause Exploration Prizes] Trust and Science
Open Philanthropy
4mo
3
54
Improving science: Influencing the direction of research and the choice of research questions
C Tilli
1y
13
166
Ingredients for creating disruptive research teams
stefan.torges
3y
17
37
Investigating how technology-focused academic fields become self-sustaining
Ben Snodin
1y
4
12
EA AI/Emerging Tech Orgs Should Be Involved with Patent Office Partnership
Bridges
6mo
0
22
Science policy as a possible EA cause area: problems and solutions
PabloAMC
11mo
8
67
How Life Sciences Actually Work: Findings of a Year-Long Investigation
guzey
3y
14
26
[Cause Exploration Prizes] improved quality control in science
Sophie Schauman
3mo
4
40
New GPT3 Impressive Capabilities - InstructGPT3 [1/2]
simeon_c
9mo
4
11
LW4EA: Science in a High-Dimensional World
Jeremy
3mo
1
33
Scihub backups for open research
acylhalide
1y
2
29
Proposal: alternative to traditional academic journals for EA-relevant research (multi-link post)
david_reinstein
1y
9
5
[Cause Exploration Prizes] Meta-science
Stuart Buck
2mo
0
38
[Help please/Updated] Best EA use of $250,000AUD/$190,000 USD for metascience?
AspiringPhilanthropist
1y
9
7
Breaking Up Elite Colleges
sahajsharda
6mo
7
33
Criteria for scientific choice I, II
EdoArad
2y
1
27
Postponing research can sometimes be the optimal decision
Michele Campolo
2y
1
20
A new study looks at how scientific fields have formed
Animal_Ethics
1y
2
30
How to estimate the EV of general intellectual progress
Ozzie Gooen
2y
13
17
List of Under-Investigated Fields - Matthew McAteer
EdoArad
1y
5
20
A bill to massively expand NSF to tech domains. What's the relevance for x-risk?
EdoArad
2y
4