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Why I'm Sceptical of Foom
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Everybody Comes Back
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Progress, Stagnation, & Collapse
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1y
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Death by Red Tape
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More power to you
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1960: The Year The Singularity Was Cancelled
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Book Review: Secular Cycles
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3y
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Exponential growth is the baseline
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1y
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Where is my Flying Car?
PeterMcCluskey
4y
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The Hard Intelligence Hypothesis and Its Bearing on Succession Induced Foom
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Existential risk from AI without an intelligence explosion
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5y
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Why did we wait so long for the threshing machine?
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1y
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Was the Industrial Revolution The Industrial Revolution?
Davis Kedrosky
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Highlights from The Autobiography of Andrew Carnegie
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[Book Review] "The Most Powerful Idea in the World" by William Rosen
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Draining the swamp
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2y
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[Answer] Why wasn't science invented in China?
Ruby
3y
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Superexponential Historic Growth, by David Roodman
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[Part 2] Amplifying generalist research via forecasting – results from a preliminary exploration
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3y
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Can the Chain Still Hold You?
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10y
361
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1689: Uncovering the World New Institutionalism Created
Davis Kedrosky
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Book review: The Technology Trap
Richard_Ngo
3y
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The Robots, AI, and Unemployment Anti-FAQ
Eliezer Yudkowsky
9y
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Iron: From mythical to mundane
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3y
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How The West Was Won
Scott Alexander
6y
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