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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
838
What an actually pessimistic containment strategy looks like
lc
8mo
136
403
You Are Not Measuring What You Think You Are Measuring
johnswentworth
3mo
38
388
Industrial literacy
jasoncrawford
2y
128
271
Science in a High-Dimensional World
johnswentworth
1y
51
253
Zoe Curzi's Experience with Leverage Research
Ilverin
1y
265
249
Gravity Turn
alkjash
1y
20
218
Why haven't we celebrated any major achievements lately?
jasoncrawford
2y
72
209
Some cruxes on impactful alternatives to AI policy work
Richard_Ngo
4y
13
208
Thiel on Progress and Stagnation
Richard_Ngo
2y
36
205
Technological stagnation: Why I came around
jasoncrawford
1y
76
188
Common knowledge about Leverage Research 1.0
BayAreaHuman
1y
218
168
Can the Chain Still Hold You?
lukeprog
10y
361
146
Sci-Hub sued in India
Connor_Flexman
1y
19
146
Is Science Slowing Down?
Scott Alexander
4y
77
653
Rationalism before the Sequences
Eric Raymond
1y
80
297
Is Rationalist Self-Improvement Real?
Jacob Falkovich
3y
74
286
Extreme Rationality: It's Not That Great
Scott Alexander
13y
281
280
An Observation of Vavilov Day
Elizabeth
11mo
42
267
A tale from Communist China
Wei_Dai
2y
65
258
Eliezer's Sequences and Mainstream Academia
lukeprog
10y
157
246
12 interesting things I learned studying the discovery of nature's laws
Ben Pace
10mo
40
206
"Flinching away from truth” is often about *protecting* the epistemology
AnnaSalamon
6y
56
193
Discontinuous progress in history: an update
KatjaGrace
2y
25
190
Rule Thinkers In, Not Out
Scott Alexander
3y
62
158
The Rationalists of the 1950s (and before) also called themselves “Rationalists”
Owain_Evans
1y
28
140
Cortés, Pizarro, and Afonso as Precedents for Takeover
Daniel Kokotajlo
2y
75
115
The bonds of family and community: Poverty and cruelty among Russian peasants in the late 19th century
jasoncrawford
1y
34
113
Book review: WEIRDest People
PeterMcCluskey
2y
54