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Beyond the moment of invention
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Ordinary human life
David Hugh-Jones
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Announcing the Progress Forum
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Instead of technical research, more people should focus on buying time
Akash
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What an actually pessimistic containment strategy looks like
lc
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Why Weren't Hot Air Balloons Invented Sooner?
Lost Futures
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Why I'm Sceptical of Foom
DragonGod
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Analysis: US restricts GPU sales to China
aogara
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When should we be surprised that an invention took “so long”?
jasoncrawford
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Announcing the incoming CEO for The Roots of Progress
jasoncrawford
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The lessons of Xanadu
jasoncrawford
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Progress links and tweets, 2022-11-22
jasoncrawford
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Progress links and tweets, 2022-11-29
jasoncrawford
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Why was progress so slow in the past?
jasoncrawford
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You Are Not Measuring What You Think You Are Measuring
johnswentworth
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The Balto/Togo theory of scientific development
Elizabeth
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Methodological Therapy: An Agenda For Tackling Research Bottlenecks
adamShimi
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Dependency Tree For The Development Of Plate Tectonics
Elizabeth
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MATS Models
johnswentworth
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Paper reading as a Cargo Cult
jem-mosig
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Intuitions about solving hard problems
Richard_Ngo
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Gravity Turn
alkjash
1y
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Productive Mistakes, Not Perfect Answers
adamShimi
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Sci-Hub sued in India
Connor_Flexman
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Science in a High-Dimensional World
johnswentworth
1y
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Epistemic Artefacts of (conceptual) AI alignment research
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Against the weirdness heuristic
Eleni Angelou
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Levels of Pluralism
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