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Progress Studies
Practice & Philosophy of Science
Intellectual Progress (Society-Level)
AI Governance
Leverage Research
Intellectual Progress via LessWrong
Industrial Revolution
Intelligence Explosion
China
Stagnation
Recursive Self-Improvement
Regulation and AI Risk
128 posts
History
Rationality A-Z (discussion & meta)
History of Rationality
Prioritization
Bucket Errors
Value of Rationality
Criticisms of The Rationalist Movement
General Semantics
Cognitive Fusion
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Why I'm Sceptical of Foom
DragonGod
12d
26
97
Analysis: US restricts GPU sales to China
aogara
2mo
58
103
In Defense of Attempting Hard Things, and my story of the Leverage ecosystem
Cathleen
1y
44
114
Instead of technical research, more people should focus on buying time
Akash
1mo
51
102
Why Weren't Hot Air Balloons Invented Sooner?
Lost Futures
2mo
52
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You Are Not Measuring What You Think You Are Measuring
johnswentworth
3mo
38
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Announcing the Progress Forum
jasoncrawford
1mo
9
25
When should we be surprised that an invention took “so long”?
jasoncrawford
1mo
9
53
Why was progress so slow in the past?
jasoncrawford
3mo
31
205
Technological stagnation: Why I came around
jasoncrawford
1y
76
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Methodological Therapy: An Agenda For Tackling Research Bottlenecks
adamShimi
2mo
6
109
The lessons of Xanadu
jasoncrawford
4mo
20
19
Simple proofs of the age of the universe (or other things)
Astynax
3mo
12
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Progress links and tweets, 2022-11-01
jasoncrawford
1mo
4
19
Motivated Cognition and the Multiverse of Truth
Q Home
28d
12
4
Is German rationality more memetically derived from the west or former east?
Trevor1
29d
5
55
We need a new philosophy of progress
jasoncrawford
1y
45
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An EPub of Eliezer's blog posts
Paul Crowley
11y
38
97
Fiber arts, mysterious dodecahedrons, and waiting on “Eureka!”
eukaryote
4mo
9
106
A summary of every "Highlights from the Sequences" post
Akash
5mo
7
63
A History of Bayes' Theorem
lukeprog
11y
91
24
From technocracy to the counterculture
jasoncrawford
2mo
1
8
American invention from the “heroic age” to the system-building era
jasoncrawford
2mo
1
67
100 Years Of Existential Risk
jdp
1y
12
48
Humanity is Winning the Fight Against Infectious Disease
lsusr
1y
9
60
Book review: The Sleepwalkers by Arthur Koestler
Richard_Ngo
3y
26
15
On Building Theories of History
Samo Burja
4y
20
83
Why do we need a NEW philosophy of progress?
jasoncrawford
10mo
26