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Intellectual Progress (Society-Level)
Intellectual Progress via LessWrong
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Practice & Philosophy of Science
History & Philosophy of Science
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Gravity Turn
alkjash
1y
20
142
The Copernican Revolution from the Inside
jacobjacob
5y
46
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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
102
Lessons from “The Book of My Life”
bmgarfinkel
1y
3
102
MATS Models
johnswentworth
5mo
5
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For progress to be by accumulation and not by random walk, read great books
MichaelVassar
12y
115
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Methodological Therapy: An Agenda For Tackling Research Bottlenecks
adamShimi
2mo
6
57
How to Find the Frontiers of Knowledge
Samo Burja
2y
1
56
The YouTube Revolution in Knowledge Transfer
Samo Burja
3y
7
53
On the Loss and Preservation of Knowledge
Samo Burja
4y
20
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Suggestions of posts on the AF to review
adamShimi
1y
20
39
How to analyze progress, stagnation, and low-hanging fruit
jasoncrawford
2y
9
39
Which scientific discovery was most ahead of its time?
Richard_Ngo
3y
14
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You Are Not Measuring What You Think You Are Measuring
johnswentworth
3mo
38
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Science in a High-Dimensional World
johnswentworth
1y
51
146
Sci-Hub sued in India
Connor_Flexman
1y
19
138
Beware The Man Of One Study
Scott Alexander
8y
1
104
On Solving Problems Before They Appear: The Weird Epistemologies of Alignment
adamShimi
1y
11
102
Intuitions about solving hard problems
Richard_Ngo
7mo
23
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No One Knows What Science Doesn't Know
Eliezer Yudkowsky
15y
107
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Faster Than Science
Eliezer Yudkowsky
14y
13
72
When Science Can't Help
Eliezer Yudkowsky
14y
70
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Science Isn't Strict Enough
Eliezer Yudkowsky
14y
63
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Paper reading as a Cargo Cult
jem-mosig
4mo
10
63
Do Scientists Already Know This Stuff?
Eliezer Yudkowsky
14y
57
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Science Doesn't Trust Your Rationality
Eliezer Yudkowsky
14y
137
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Feed the spinoff heuristic!
CarlShulman
10y
91