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127
In Defense of Attempting Hard Things, and my story of the Leverage ecosystem
Cathleen
1y
44
112
Why Weren't Hot Air Balloons Invented Sooner?
Lost Futures
2mo
52
97
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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The lessons of Xanadu
jasoncrawford
4mo
20
18
Progress links and tweets, 2022-11-01
jasoncrawford
1mo
4
28
Cleaning a Spoon is Complex
jefftk
2mo
5
203
Zoe Curzi's Experience with Leverage Research
Ilverin
1y
265
13
Progress links and tweets, 2022-08-31
jasoncrawford
3mo
4
31
Technocracy and the Space Age
jasoncrawford
4mo
5
20
Progress links & tweets, 2022-09-08
jasoncrawford
3mo
3
6
How much impact can any one man have?
GregorDeVillain
3mo
3
10
Progress links and tweets, 2022-08-09
jasoncrawford
4mo
3
10
Why I'm Sceptical of Foom
DragonGod
12d
26
91
Analysis: US restricts GPU sales to China
aogara
2mo
58
46
Instead of technical research, more people should focus on buying time
Akash
1mo
51
169
Technological stagnation: Why I came around
jasoncrawford
1y
76
11
How much of China's Zero COVID policy is actually about COVID?
jmh
2mo
3
94
[Answer] Why wasn't science invented in China?
Ruby
3y
46
270
What an actually pessimistic containment strategy looks like
lc
8mo
136
32
Optimization and the Intelligence Explosion
Eliezer Yudkowsky
7y
1
4
Law-Following AI 4: Don't Rely on Vicarious Liability
Cullen_OKeefe
4mo
2
-17
Four Societal Interventions to Improve our AGI Position
Rafael Cosman
5mo
2
216
Can the Chain Still Hold You?
lukeprog
10y
361
11
Intelligence explosion in organizations, or why I'm not worried about the singularity
sbenthall
9y
187
7
Could Democritus have predicted intelligence explosion?
lukeprog
10y
56
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Book Review: Secular Cycles
Scott Alexander
3y
11