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Two Dogmas of LessWrong
omnizoid
5d
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The Averageness of The Internet
louis030195
17h
1
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Taboo "Outside View"
Daniel Kokotajlo
1y
26
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What 2026 looks like
Daniel Kokotajlo
1y
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A thought experiment
sisyphus
10d
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Stanley Meyer's water fuel cell
mikbp
6d
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D&D.Sci December 2022 Evaluation and Ruleset
abstractapplic
8d
7
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Basic building blocks of dependent type theory
Thomas Kehrenberg
5d
4
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Coase's "Nature of the Firm" on Polyamory
1a3orn
1y
26
18
Does biology reliably find the global maximum, or at least get close?
Noosphere89
2mo
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It’s Probably Not Lithium
Natália Coelho Mendonça
5mo
181
35
Monthly Roundup #1
Zvi
11d
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-6
There’s One Thing Futurists are Never Wrong About
Alex Beyman
2mo
45
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About probabilities
mikbp
23d
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10
Why I'm Sceptical of Foom
DragonGod
12d
26
91
Analysis: US restricts GPU sales to China
aogara
2mo
58
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In Defense of Attempting Hard Things, and my story of the Leverage ecosystem
Cathleen
1y
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46
Instead of technical research, more people should focus on buying time
Akash
1mo
51
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Motivated Cognition and the Multiverse of Truth
Q Home
28d
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Why Weren't Hot Air Balloons Invented Sooner?
Lost Futures
2mo
52
213
You Are Not Measuring What You Think You Are Measuring
johnswentworth
3mo
38
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Announcing the Progress Forum
jasoncrawford
1mo
9
39
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
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Is German rationality more memetically derived from the west or former east?
Trevor1
29d
5
169
Technological stagnation: Why I came around
jasoncrawford
1y
76
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Methodological Therapy: An Agenda For Tackling Research Bottlenecks
adamShimi
2mo
6
73
We need a new philosophy of progress
jasoncrawford
1y
45