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Progress Studies
Practice & Philosophy of Science
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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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Beyond the moment of invention
jasoncrawford
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Ordinary human life
David Hugh-Jones
3d
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Announcing the Progress Forum
jasoncrawford
1mo
9
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You Are Not Measuring What You Think You Are Measuring
johnswentworth
3mo
38
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Why Weren't Hot Air Balloons Invented Sooner?
Lost Futures
2mo
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When should we be surprised that an invention took “so long”?
jasoncrawford
1mo
9
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Analysis: US restricts GPU sales to China
aogara
2mo
58
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Announcing the incoming CEO for The Roots of Progress
jasoncrawford
20d
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Instead of technical research, more people should focus on buying time
Akash
1mo
51
10
Why I'm Sceptical of Foom
DragonGod
12d
26
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The Balto/Togo theory of scientific development
Elizabeth
2mo
5
270
What an actually pessimistic containment strategy looks like
lc
8mo
136
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Progress links and tweets, 2022-11-22
jasoncrawford
28d
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107
The lessons of Xanadu
jasoncrawford
4mo
20
115
Fiber arts, mysterious dodecahedrons, and waiting on “Eureka!”
eukaryote
4mo
9
246
12 interesting things I learned studying the discovery of nature's laws
Ben Pace
10mo
40
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From technocracy to the counterculture
jasoncrawford
2mo
1
395
Rationalism before the Sequences
Eric Raymond
1y
80
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A summary of every "Highlights from the Sequences" post
Akash
5mo
7
202
The Rationalists of the 1950s (and before) also called themselves “Rationalists”
Owain_Evans
1y
28
178
An Observation of Vavilov Day
Elizabeth
11mo
42
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Clem's Memo
abstractapplic
8mo
8
69
Reinventing the wheel
jasoncrawford
6mo
13
114
Lives of the Cambridge polymath geniuses
Owain_Evans
10mo
40
18
American invention from the “heroic age” to the system-building era
jasoncrawford
2mo
1
16
Abbots Bromley Horn Dance History
jefftk
2mo
0
107
The bonds of family and community: Poverty and cruelty among Russian peasants in the late 19th century
jasoncrawford
1y
34
103
Where did the 5 micron number come from? Nowhere good. [Wired.com]
Elizabeth
1y
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