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Intellectual Progress (Society-Level)
Intellectual Progress via LessWrong
59 posts
Practice & Philosophy of Science
History & Philosophy of Science
4
Proliferating Education
Haris Rashid
4h
0
58
Methodological Therapy: An Agenda For Tackling Research Bottlenecks
adamShimi
2mo
6
102
MATS Models
johnswentworth
5mo
5
249
Gravity Turn
alkjash
1y
20
104
Productive Mistakes, Not Perfect Answers
adamShimi
8mo
11
37
Epistemic Artefacts of (conceptual) AI alignment research
Nora_Ammann
4mo
1
21
Please (re)explain your personal jargon
Nathan Helm-Burger
4mo
4
102
Lessons from “The Book of My Life”
bmgarfinkel
1y
3
107
What's Wrong with Social Science and How to Fix It: Reflections After Reading 2578 Papers
habryka
2y
22
14
An academic journal is just a Twitter feed
David Hugh-Jones
6mo
3
57
How to Find the Frontiers of Knowledge
Samo Burja
2y
1
142
The Copernican Revolution from the Inside
jacobjacob
5y
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Suggestions of posts on the AF to review
adamShimi
1y
20
12
On Context And People
Jan
9mo
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You Are Not Measuring What You Think You Are Measuring
johnswentworth
3mo
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The Balto/Togo theory of scientific development
Elizabeth
2mo
5
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Paper reading as a Cargo Cult
jem-mosig
4mo
10
29
Dependency Tree For The Development Of Plate Tectonics
Elizabeth
2mo
3
102
Intuitions about solving hard problems
Richard_Ngo
7mo
23
146
Sci-Hub sued in India
Connor_Flexman
1y
19
271
Science in a High-Dimensional World
johnswentworth
1y
51
43
Levels of Pluralism
adamShimi
4mo
0
20
Against the weirdness heuristic
Eleni Angelou
2mo
3
19
Simple proofs of the age of the universe (or other things)
Astynax
3mo
12
104
On Solving Problems Before They Appear: The Weird Epistemologies of Alignment
adamShimi
1y
11
16
Alignment's phlogiston
Eleni Angelou
4mo
2
6
Telic intuitions across the sciences
mrcbarbier
1mo
0
37
What The Foucault
adamShimi
10mo
6