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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
270
What an actually pessimistic containment strategy looks like
lc
8mo
136
227
Science in a High-Dimensional World
johnswentworth
1y
51
216
Can the Chain Still Hold You?
lukeprog
10y
361
213
You Are Not Measuring What You Think You Are Measuring
johnswentworth
3mo
38
208
Common knowledge about Leverage Research 1.0
BayAreaHuman
1y
218
203
Zoe Curzi's Experience with Leverage Research
Ilverin
1y
265
174
Industrial literacy
jasoncrawford
2y
128
169
Gravity Turn
alkjash
1y
20
169
Technological stagnation: Why I came around
jasoncrawford
1y
76
168
Why haven't we celebrated any major achievements lately?
jasoncrawford
2y
72
142
Thiel on Progress and Stagnation
Richard_Ngo
2y
36
127
In Defense of Attempting Hard Things, and my story of the Leverage ecosystem
Cathleen
1y
44
119
Why has nuclear power been a flop?
jasoncrawford
1y
46
116
Sci-Hub sued in India
Connor_Flexman
1y
19
395
Rationalism before the Sequences
Eric Raymond
1y
80
246
12 interesting things I learned studying the discovery of nature's laws
Ben Pace
10mo
40
213
A tale from Communist China
Wei_Dai
2y
65
212
"Flinching away from truth” is often about *protecting* the epistemology
AnnaSalamon
6y
56
202
The Rationalists of the 1950s (and before) also called themselves “Rationalists”
Owain_Evans
1y
28
178
An Observation of Vavilov Day
Elizabeth
11mo
42
176
Extreme Rationality: It's Not That Great
Scott Alexander
13y
281
170
Eliezer's Sequences and Mainstream Academia
lukeprog
10y
157
165
Discontinuous progress in history: an update
KatjaGrace
2y
25
155
Is Rationalist Self-Improvement Real?
Jacob Falkovich
3y
74
151
Rationality: From AI to Zombies
Rob Bensinger
7y
102
150
Cortés, Pizarro, and Afonso as Precedents for Takeover
Daniel Kokotajlo
2y
75
142
Rule Thinkers In, Not Out
Scott Alexander
3y
62
133
A brief history of ethically concerned scientists
Kaj_Sotala
9y
150