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Progress Studies
Practice & Philosophy of Science
Intellectual Progress (Society-Level)
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
4d
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Ordinary human life
David Hugh-Jones
3d
0
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You Are Not Measuring What You Think You Are Measuring
johnswentworth
3mo
38
82
Announcing the Progress Forum
jasoncrawford
1mo
9
80
Instead of technical research, more people should focus on buying time
Akash
1mo
51
554
What an actually pessimistic containment strategy looks like
lc
8mo
136
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Why Weren't Hot Air Balloons Invented Sooner?
Lost Futures
2mo
52
16
Why I'm Sceptical of Foom
DragonGod
12d
26
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Analysis: US restricts GPU sales to China
aogara
2mo
58
32
When should we be surprised that an invention took “so long”?
jasoncrawford
1mo
9
15
Announcing the incoming CEO for The Roots of Progress
jasoncrawford
20d
0
64
The Balto/Togo theory of scientific development
Elizabeth
2mo
5
108
The lessons of Xanadu
jasoncrawford
4mo
20
17
Progress links and tweets, 2022-11-22
jasoncrawford
28d
0
106
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
524
Rationalism before the Sequences
Eric Raymond
1y
80
229
An Observation of Vavilov Day
Elizabeth
11mo
42
91
A summary of every "Highlights from the Sequences" post
Akash
5mo
7
28
From technocracy to the counterculture
jasoncrawford
2mo
1
180
The Rationalists of the 1950s (and before) also called themselves “Rationalists”
Owain_Evans
1y
28
78
Reinventing the wheel
jasoncrawford
6mo
13
8
Motivated Cognition and the Multiverse of Truth
Q Home
28d
12
96
Clem's Memo
abstractapplic
8mo
8
101
Lives of the Cambridge polymath geniuses
Owain_Evans
10mo
40
111
The bonds of family and community: Poverty and cruelty among Russian peasants in the late 19th century
jasoncrawford
1y
34
240
A tale from Communist China
Wei_Dai
2y
65
99
Where did the 5 micron number come from? Nowhere good. [Wired.com]
Elizabeth
1y
6