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Instead of technical research, more people should focus on buying time
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What an actually pessimistic containment strategy looks like
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Announcing the Progress Forum
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Why I'm Sceptical of Foom
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Why Weren't Hot Air Balloons Invented Sooner?
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Analysis: US restricts GPU sales to China
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When should we be surprised that an invention took “so long”?
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The lessons of Xanadu
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Announcing the incoming CEO for The Roots of Progress
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Progress links and tweets, 2022-11-22
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Why was progress so slow in the past?
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Zoe Curzi's Experience with Leverage Research
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Proliferating Education
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You Are Not Measuring What You Think You Are Measuring
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The Balto/Togo theory of scientific development
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Methodological Therapy: An Agenda For Tackling Research Bottlenecks
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MATS Models
johnswentworth
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Paper reading as a Cargo Cult
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Gravity Turn
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Dependency Tree For The Development Of Plate Tectonics
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Intuitions about solving hard problems
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Productive Mistakes, Not Perfect Answers
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Sci-Hub sued in India
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Epistemic Artefacts of (conceptual) AI alignment research
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Science in a High-Dimensional World
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Levels of Pluralism
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