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Progress Studies
Practice & Philosophy of Science
Intellectual Progress (Society-Level)
AI Governance
Leverage Research
Intellectual Progress via LessWrong
Industrial Revolution
Intelligence Explosion
China
Stagnation
Recursive Self-Improvement
Regulation and AI Risk
128 posts
History
Rationality A-Z (discussion & meta)
History of Rationality
Prioritization
Bucket Errors
Value of Rationality
Criticisms of The Rationalist Movement
General Semantics
Cognitive Fusion
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Proliferating Education
Haris Rashid
4h
0
31
Beyond the moment of invention
jasoncrawford
4d
0
20
Ordinary human life
David Hugh-Jones
3d
0
403
You Are Not Measuring What You Think You Are Measuring
johnswentworth
3mo
38
114
Instead of technical research, more people should focus on buying time
Akash
1mo
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838
What an actually pessimistic containment strategy looks like
lc
8mo
136
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Announcing the Progress Forum
jasoncrawford
1mo
9
22
Why I'm Sceptical of Foom
DragonGod
12d
26
102
Why Weren't Hot Air Balloons Invented Sooner?
Lost Futures
2mo
52
97
Analysis: US restricts GPU sales to China
aogara
2mo
58
25
When should we be surprised that an invention took “so long”?
jasoncrawford
1mo
9
54
The Balto/Togo theory of scientific development
Elizabeth
2mo
5
109
The lessons of Xanadu
jasoncrawford
4mo
20
11
Announcing the incoming CEO for The Roots of Progress
jasoncrawford
20d
0
19
Motivated Cognition and the Multiverse of Truth
Q Home
28d
12
653
Rationalism before the Sequences
Eric Raymond
1y
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12 interesting things I learned studying the discovery of nature's laws
Ben Pace
10mo
40
97
Fiber arts, mysterious dodecahedrons, and waiting on “Eureka!”
eukaryote
4mo
9
280
An Observation of Vavilov Day
Elizabeth
11mo
42
106
A summary of every "Highlights from the Sequences" post
Akash
5mo
7
87
Reinventing the wheel
jasoncrawford
6mo
13
24
From technocracy to the counterculture
jasoncrawford
2mo
1
158
The Rationalists of the 1950s (and before) also called themselves “Rationalists”
Owain_Evans
1y
28
91
Clem's Memo
abstractapplic
8mo
8
267
A tale from Communist China
Wei_Dai
2y
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115
The bonds of family and community: Poverty and cruelty among Russian peasants in the late 19th century
jasoncrawford
1y
34
88
Lives of the Cambridge polymath geniuses
Owain_Evans
10mo
40
83
Why do we need a NEW philosophy of progress?
jasoncrawford
10mo
26