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Why I'm Sceptical of Foom
DragonGod
12d
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Technological stagnation: Why I came around
jasoncrawford
1y
76
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Optimization and the Intelligence Explosion
Eliezer Yudkowsky
7y
1
15
Intelligence explosion in organizations, or why I'm not worried about the singularity
sbenthall
9y
187
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Could Democritus have predicted intelligence explosion?
lukeprog
10y
56
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Book Review: Secular Cycles
Scott Alexander
3y
11
15
The Hard Intelligence Hypothesis and Its Bearing on Succession Induced Foom
DragonGod
6mo
7
5
Stable self-improvement as a research problem
paulfchristiano
8y
0
5
Facing the Intelligence Explosion
mgin
8y
0
2
Intelligence Explosion analysis draft: From digital intelligence to intelligence explosion
lukeprog
11y
5
34
Death by Red Tape
abramdemski
1y
15
31
Singularity goes mainstream (in philosophy)
lukeprog
11y
7
96
A review of Where Is My Flying Car? by J. Storrs Hall
jasoncrawford
2y
21
24
Peter Thiel warns of upcoming (and current) stagnation
SilasBarta
11y
121
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[Answer] Why wasn't science invented in China?
Ruby
3y
46
168
Can the Chain Still Hold You?
lukeprog
10y
361
75
Highlights from The Autobiography of Andrew Carnegie
jasoncrawford
1y
7
45
[Book Review] "The Most Powerful Idea in the World" by William Rosen
lsusr
12mo
4
28
Superexponential Historic Growth, by David Roodman
Ben Pace
2y
6
62
[Part 2] Amplifying generalist research via forecasting – results from a preliminary exploration
jacobjacob
3y
10
102
Why did we wait so long for the threshing machine?
jasoncrawford
1y
19
70
Draining the swamp
jasoncrawford
2y
0
76
The Robots, AI, and Unemployment Anti-FAQ
Eliezer Yudkowsky
9y
268
15
Iron: From mythical to mundane
jasoncrawford
3y
8
31
Was the Industrial Revolution The Industrial Revolution?
Davis Kedrosky
6mo
0
24
Book review: The Technology Trap
Richard_Ngo
3y
1
8
1689: Uncovering the World New Institutionalism Created
Davis Kedrosky
6mo
0
57
How The West Was Won
Scott Alexander
6y
10