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Singularity
Stagnation
388
Industrial literacy
jasoncrawford
2y
128
253
Zoe Curzi's Experience with Leverage Research
Ilverin
1y
265
218
Why haven't we celebrated any major achievements lately?
jasoncrawford
2y
72
208
Thiel on Progress and Stagnation
Richard_Ngo
2y
36
188
Common knowledge about Leverage Research 1.0
BayAreaHuman
1y
218
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
109
The lessons of Xanadu
jasoncrawford
4mo
20
108
Technology Changes Constraints
johnswentworth
2y
6
105
Instant stone (just add water!)
jasoncrawford
3y
28
103
In Defense of Attempting Hard Things, and my story of the Leverage ecosystem
Cathleen
1y
44
102
Why Weren't Hot Air Balloons Invented Sooner?
Lost Futures
2mo
52
80
Did the Industrial Revolution decrease costs or increase quality?
jasoncrawford
1y
5
838
What an actually pessimistic containment strategy looks like
lc
8mo
136
209
Some cruxes on impactful alternatives to AI policy work
Richard_Ngo
4y
13
205
Technological stagnation: Why I came around
jasoncrawford
1y
76
168
Can the Chain Still Hold You?
lukeprog
10y
361
114
Instead of technical research, more people should focus on buying time
Akash
1mo
51
108
1960: The Year The Singularity Was Cancelled
Scott Alexander
3y
15
102
Why did we wait so long for the threshing machine?
jasoncrawford
1y
19
97
Analysis: US restricts GPU sales to China
aogara
2mo
58
96
A review of Where Is My Flying Car? by J. Storrs Hall
jasoncrawford
2y
21
91
Where are people thinking and talking about global coordination for AI safety?
Wei_Dai
3y
22
90
[Answer] Why wasn't science invented in China?
Ruby
3y
46
78
[Prediction] What war between the USA and China would look like in 2050
lsusr
1y
54
76
The Robots, AI, and Unemployment Anti-FAQ
Eliezer Yudkowsky
9y
268
75
Highlights from The Autobiography of Andrew Carnegie
jasoncrawford
1y
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