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Technological stagnation: Why I came around
jasoncrawford
1y
76
108
1960: The Year The Singularity Was Cancelled
Scott Alexander
3y
15
96
A review of Where Is My Flying Car? by J. Storrs Hall
jasoncrawford
2y
21
64
Optimization and the Intelligence Explosion
Eliezer Yudkowsky
7y
1
62
Book Review: Secular Cycles
Scott Alexander
3y
11
46
Where is my Flying Car?
PeterMcCluskey
4y
10
40
Recursive Self-Improvement
Eliezer Yudkowsky
14y
54
34
Death by Red Tape
abramdemski
1y
15
34
Progress, Stagnation, & Collapse
abramdemski
1y
14
31
Singularity goes mainstream (in philosophy)
lukeprog
11y
7
25
Exponential growth is the baseline
jasoncrawford
1y
2
24
Peter Thiel warns of upcoming (and current) stagnation
SilasBarta
11y
121
22
Why I'm Sceptical of Foom
DragonGod
12d
26
21
Facing the Intelligence Explosion discussion page
lukeprog
11y
142
168
Can the Chain Still Hold You?
lukeprog
10y
361
102
Why did we wait so long for the threshing machine?
jasoncrawford
1y
19
90
[Answer] Why wasn't science invented in China?
Ruby
3y
46
76
The Robots, AI, and Unemployment Anti-FAQ
Eliezer Yudkowsky
9y
268
75
Highlights from The Autobiography of Andrew Carnegie
jasoncrawford
1y
7
70
Draining the swamp
jasoncrawford
2y
0
62
[Part 2] Amplifying generalist research via forecasting – results from a preliminary exploration
jacobjacob
3y
10
57
How The West Was Won
Scott Alexander
6y
10
45
[Book Review] "The Most Powerful Idea in the World" by William Rosen
lsusr
12mo
4
31
Was the Industrial Revolution The Industrial Revolution?
Davis Kedrosky
6mo
0
28
Superexponential Historic Growth, by David Roodman
Ben Pace
2y
6
24
Book review: The Technology Trap
Richard_Ngo
3y
1
15
Iron: From mythical to mundane
jasoncrawford
3y
8
8
1689: Uncovering the World New Institutionalism Created
Davis Kedrosky
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