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Intellectual Progress (Society-Level)
Intellectual Progress via LessWrong
59 posts
Practice & Philosophy of Science
History & Philosophy of Science
54
Methodological Therapy: An Agenda For Tackling Research Bottlenecks
adamShimi
2mo
6
84
MATS Models
johnswentworth
5mo
5
19
Please (re)explain your personal jargon
Nathan Helm-Burger
4mo
4
30
Epistemic Artefacts of (conceptual) AI alignment research
Nora_Ammann
4mo
1
56
Suggestions of posts on the AF to review
adamShimi
1y
20
37
The efficiency of prizes
lukeprog
10y
18
25
The tech left behind
Leafcraft
3y
22
104
Lessons from “The Book of My Life”
bmgarfinkel
1y
3
95
Productive Mistakes, Not Perfect Answers
adamShimi
8mo
11
0
Proliferating Education
Haris Rashid
4h
0
42
How to analyze progress, stagnation, and low-hanging fruit
jasoncrawford
2y
9
34
Pasteur's quadrant
jasoncrawford
2y
2
117
The Copernican Revolution from the Inside
jacobjacob
5y
46
13
An academic journal is just a Twitter feed
David Hugh-Jones
6mo
3
308
You Are Not Measuring What You Think You Are Measuring
johnswentworth
3mo
38
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Simple proofs of the age of the universe (or other things)
Astynax
3mo
12
66
Paper reading as a Cargo Cult
jem-mosig
4mo
10
64
The Balto/Togo theory of scientific development
Elizabeth
2mo
5
38
Dependency Tree For The Development Of Plate Tectonics
Elizabeth
2mo
3
17
Against the weirdness heuristic
Eleni Angelou
2mo
3
6
Who ordered alignment's apple?
Eleni Angelou
3mo
3
10
Alignment's phlogiston
Eleni Angelou
4mo
2
56
Science Isn't Strict Enough
Eliezer Yudkowsky
14y
63
249
Science in a High-Dimensional World
johnswentworth
1y
51
32
Hard to find factors messing up experiments: Examples?
Hazard
3y
13
30
Changing the Definition of Science
Eliezer Yudkowsky
14y
30
92
Intuitions about solving hard problems
Richard_Ngo
7mo
23
21
Book Review: A PhD is Not Enough
ljh2
8mo
4