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Metascience
Intellectual property
31 posts
Scientific progress
Steven Pinker
The Roots of Progress
166
Liars
Kelsey Piper
8mo
30
166
Ingredients for creating disruptive research teams
stefan.torges
3y
17
112
The FDA demanded my employer bury inconvenient clinical trial data. What should I do?
Throwaway641
8mo
14
102
Why scientific research is less effective in producing value than it could be: a mapping
C Tilli
1y
32
84
Solving the replication crisis (FTX proposal)
Michael_Wiebe
7mo
19
67
How Life Sciences Actually Work: Findings of a Year-Long Investigation
guzey
3y
14
54
Improving science: Influencing the direction of research and the choice of research questions
C Tilli
1y
13
47
Announcing: "Lets-Fund.org: High-Impact Crowdfunding campaigns" & "Let's Fund #1: A (small) scientific Revolution"
Hauke Hillebrandt
4y
7
39
Prioritization in Science - current view
EdoArad
2y
7
37
Investigating how technology-focused academic fields become self-sustaining
Ben Snodin
1y
4
25
How do ideas travel from academia to the world: any advice on what to read?
dominicroser
1y
5
25
No, it's not the incentives — it's you
Aaron Gertler
1y
0
23
Developing interventions for promoting prosocial behavior might be more cost-effective at increasing well-being than providing psychotherapy
Falk Lieder
5mo
5
22
Science policy as a possible EA cause area: problems and solutions
PabloAMC
11mo
8
40
New GPT3 Impressive Capabilities - InstructGPT3 [1/2]
simeon_c
9mo
4
38
[Help please/Updated] Best EA use of $250,000AUD/$190,000 USD for metascience?
AspiringPhilanthropist
1y
9
33
Criteria for scientific choice I, II
EdoArad
2y
1
33
Scihub backups for open research
acylhalide
1y
2
30
How to estimate the EV of general intellectual progress
Ozzie Gooen
2y
13
29
Proposal: alternative to traditional academic journals for EA-relevant research (multi-link post)
david_reinstein
1y
9
29
Which scientific discovery was most ahead of its time?
richard_ngo
3y
17
27
Postponing research can sometimes be the optimal decision
Michele Campolo
2y
1
26
[Cause Exploration Prizes] improved quality control in science
Sophie Schauman
3mo
4
25
Book Review: Enlightenment Now, by Steven Pinker
Aaron Gertler
4y
6
23
Good news that matters
Michelle_Hutchinson
4y
4
20
A bill to massively expand NSF to tech domains. What's the relevance for x-risk?
EdoArad
2y
4
20
A new study looks at how scientific fields have formed
Animal_Ethics
1y
2
19
Book recommendation: Loonshots
nonzerosum
3y
2