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What an actually pessimistic containment strategy looks like
lc
8mo
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Industrial literacy
jasoncrawford
2y
128
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Zoe Curzi's Experience with Leverage Research
Ilverin
1y
265
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
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Common knowledge about Leverage Research 1.0
BayAreaHuman
1y
218
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Can the Chain Still Hold You?
lukeprog
10y
361
146
Is Science Slowing Down?
Scott Alexander
4y
77
131
Why has nuclear power been a flop?
jasoncrawford
1y
46
128
The 300-year journey to the covid vaccine
jasoncrawford
2y
9
114
Instead of technical research, more people should focus on buying time
Akash
1mo
51
109
The lessons of Xanadu
jasoncrawford
4mo
20
403
You Are Not Measuring What You Think You Are Measuring
johnswentworth
3mo
38
271
Science in a High-Dimensional World
johnswentworth
1y
51
249
Gravity Turn
alkjash
1y
20
146
Sci-Hub sued in India
Connor_Flexman
1y
19
142
The Copernican Revolution from the Inside
jacobjacob
5y
46
138
Beware The Man Of One Study
Scott Alexander
8y
1
107
What's Wrong with Social Science and How to Fix It: Reflections After Reading 2578 Papers
habryka
2y
22
104
Productive Mistakes, Not Perfect Answers
adamShimi
8mo
11
104
On Solving Problems Before They Appear: The Weird Epistemologies of Alignment
adamShimi
1y
11
102
Lessons from “The Book of My Life”
bmgarfinkel
1y
3
102
Intuitions about solving hard problems
Richard_Ngo
7mo
23
102
MATS Models
johnswentworth
5mo
5
78
No One Knows What Science Doesn't Know
Eliezer Yudkowsky
15y
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Faster Than Science
Eliezer Yudkowsky
14y
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