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Intellectual Progress (Society-Level)
Intellectual Progress via LessWrong
59 posts
Practice & Philosophy of Science
History & Philosophy of Science
50
Methodological Therapy: An Agenda For Tackling Research Bottlenecks
adamShimi
2mo
6
66
MATS Models
johnswentworth
5mo
5
86
Productive Mistakes, Not Perfect Answers
adamShimi
8mo
11
169
Gravity Turn
alkjash
1y
20
23
Epistemic Artefacts of (conceptual) AI alignment research
Nora_Ammann
4mo
1
17
Please (re)explain your personal jargon
Nathan Helm-Burger
4mo
4
106
Lessons from “The Book of My Life”
bmgarfinkel
1y
3
101
What's Wrong with Social Science and How to Fix It: Reflections After Reading 2578 Papers
habryka
2y
22
70
Suggestions of posts on the AF to review
adamShimi
1y
20
63
How to Find the Frontiers of Knowledge
Samo Burja
2y
1
12
An academic journal is just a Twitter feed
David Hugh-Jones
6mo
3
76
The YouTube Revolution in Knowledge Transfer
Samo Burja
3y
7
61
Is the rate of scientific progress slowing down? (by Tyler Cowen and Ben Southwood)
Ben Pace
3y
6
45
How to analyze progress, stagnation, and low-hanging fruit
jasoncrawford
2y
9
213
You Are Not Measuring What You Think You Are Measuring
johnswentworth
3mo
38
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The Balto/Togo theory of scientific development
Elizabeth
2mo
5
47
Dependency Tree For The Development Of Plate Tectonics
Elizabeth
2mo
3
69
Paper reading as a Cargo Cult
jem-mosig
4mo
10
82
Intuitions about solving hard problems
Richard_Ngo
7mo
23
227
Science in a High-Dimensional World
johnswentworth
1y
51
116
Sci-Hub sued in India
Connor_Flexman
1y
19
14
Against the weirdness heuristic
Eleni Angelou
2mo
3
90
On Solving Problems Before They Appear: The Weird Epistemologies of Alignment
adamShimi
1y
11
21
Levels of Pluralism
adamShimi
4mo
0
13
Simple proofs of the age of the universe (or other things)
Astynax
3mo
12
37
What The Foucault
adamShimi
10mo
6
27
Shotgun Book Reviews: Against Method, The Knowledge Machine and Understanding Nature
adamShimi
9mo
2
30
Becoming Stronger as Epistemologist: Introduction
adamShimi
10mo
2