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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
67
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
109
The lessons of Xanadu
jasoncrawford
4mo
20
14
Progress links and tweets, 2022-11-01
jasoncrawford
1mo
4
12
Cleaning a Spoon is Complex
jefftk
2mo
5
7
How much of China's Zero COVID policy is actually about COVID?
jmh
2mo
3
253
Zoe Curzi's Experience with Leverage Research
Ilverin
1y
265
403
You Are Not Measuring What You Think You Are Measuring
johnswentworth
3mo
38
58
Methodological Therapy: An Agenda For Tackling Research Bottlenecks
adamShimi
2mo
6
19
Simple proofs of the age of the universe (or other things)
Astynax
3mo
12
63
Paper reading as a Cargo Cult
jem-mosig
4mo
10
54
The Balto/Togo theory of scientific development
Elizabeth
2mo
5
29
Dependency Tree For The Development Of Plate Tectonics
Elizabeth
2mo
3
20
Against the weirdness heuristic
Eleni Angelou
2mo
3
102
MATS Models
johnswentworth
5mo
5
21
Please (re)explain your personal jargon
Nathan Helm-Burger
4mo
4
7
Who ordered alignment's apple?
Eleni Angelou
3mo
3
16
Alignment's phlogiston
Eleni Angelou
4mo
2
71
Science Isn't Strict Enough
Eliezer Yudkowsky
14y
63
271
Science in a High-Dimensional World
johnswentworth
1y
51
23
Hard to find factors messing up experiments: Examples?
Hazard
3y
13