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Technological stagnation: Why I came around
jasoncrawford
1y
76
106
A review of Where Is My Flying Car? by J. Storrs Hall
jasoncrawford
2y
21
84
1960: The Year The Singularity Was Cancelled
Scott Alexander
3y
15
62
Book Review: Secular Cycles
Scott Alexander
3y
11
58
Where is my Flying Car?
PeterMcCluskey
4y
10
55
Singularity goes mainstream (in philosophy)
lukeprog
11y
7
48
Peter Thiel warns of upcoming (and current) stagnation
SilasBarta
11y
121
47
Intelligence Explosion vs. Co-operative Explosion
Kaj_Sotala
10y
62
42
Death by Red Tape
abramdemski
1y
15
42
Progress, Stagnation, & Collapse
abramdemski
1y
14
32
Optimization and the Intelligence Explosion
Eliezer Yudkowsky
7y
1
29
Exponential growth is the baseline
jasoncrawford
1y
2
26
Existential risk from AI without an intelligence explosion
AlexMennen
5y
23
24
Engelbart: Insufficiently Recursive
Eliezer Yudkowsky
14y
22
216
Can the Chain Still Hold You?
lukeprog
10y
361
112
Draining the swamp
jasoncrawford
2y
0
101
Highlights from The Autobiography of Andrew Carnegie
jasoncrawford
1y
7
98
Why did we wait so long for the threshing machine?
jasoncrawford
1y
19
94
[Answer] Why wasn't science invented in China?
Ruby
3y
46
90
The Robots, AI, and Unemployment Anti-FAQ
Eliezer Yudkowsky
9y
268
62
[Part 2] Amplifying generalist research via forecasting – results from a preliminary exploration
jacobjacob
3y
10
58
Superexponential Historic Growth, by David Roodman
Ben Pace
2y
6
37
[Book Review] "The Most Powerful Idea in the World" by William Rosen
lsusr
12mo
4
32
Book review: The Technology Trap
Richard_Ngo
3y
1
27
Was the Industrial Revolution The Industrial Revolution?
Davis Kedrosky
6mo
0
23
Iron: From mythical to mundane
jasoncrawford
3y
8
21
How The West Was Won
Scott Alexander
6y
10
6
1689: Uncovering the World New Institutionalism Created
Davis Kedrosky
6mo
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