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What an actually pessimistic containment strategy looks like
lc
8mo
136
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Can the Chain Still Hold You?
lukeprog
10y
361
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
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
115
Some cruxes on impactful alternatives to AI policy work
Richard_Ngo
4y
13
115
Where are people thinking and talking about global coordination for AI safety?
Wei_Dai
3y
22
114
The 300-year journey to the covid vaccine
jasoncrawford
2y
9
112
Draining the swamp
jasoncrawford
2y
0
227
Science in a High-Dimensional World
johnswentworth
1y
51
213
You Are Not Measuring What You Think You Are Measuring
johnswentworth
3mo
38
169
Gravity Turn
alkjash
1y
20
116
Sci-Hub sued in India
Connor_Flexman
1y
19
106
Lessons from “The Book of My Life”
bmgarfinkel
1y
3
103
Feed the spinoff heuristic!
CarlShulman
10y
91
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What's Wrong with Social Science and How to Fix It: Reflections After Reading 2578 Papers
habryka
2y
22
92
The Copernican Revolution from the Inside
jacobjacob
5y
46
90
On Solving Problems Before They Appear: The Weird Epistemologies of Alignment
adamShimi
1y
11
86
Productive Mistakes, Not Perfect Answers
adamShimi
8mo
11
82
Intuitions about solving hard problems
Richard_Ngo
7mo
23
80
Ed Boyden on the State of Science
Ben Pace
3y
2
76
The YouTube Revolution in Knowledge Transfer
Samo Burja
3y
7
76
No One Knows What Science Doesn't Know
Eliezer Yudkowsky
15y
107