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Intellectual Progress (Society-Level)
Intellectual Progress via LessWrong
59 posts
Practice & Philosophy of Science
History & Philosophy of Science
169
Gravity Turn
alkjash
1y
20
106
Lessons from “The Book of My Life”
bmgarfinkel
1y
3
101
What's Wrong with Social Science and How to Fix It: Reflections After Reading 2578 Papers
habryka
2y
22
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The Copernican Revolution from the Inside
jacobjacob
5y
46
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Productive Mistakes, Not Perfect Answers
adamShimi
8mo
11
76
The YouTube Revolution in Knowledge Transfer
Samo Burja
3y
7
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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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Suggestions of posts on the AF to review
adamShimi
1y
20
69
Start Under the Streetlight, then Push into the Shadows
lukeprog
9y
29
66
MATS Models
johnswentworth
5mo
5
63
How to Find the Frontiers of Knowledge
Samo Burja
2y
1
61
Is the rate of scientific progress slowing down? (by Tyler Cowen and Ben Southwood)
Ben Pace
3y
6
57
On the Loss and Preservation of Knowledge
Samo Burja
4y
20
57
Musings on LessWrong Peer Review
Raemon
4y
23
227
Science in a High-Dimensional World
johnswentworth
1y
51
213
You Are Not Measuring What You Think You Are Measuring
johnswentworth
3mo
38
116
Sci-Hub sued in India
Connor_Flexman
1y
19
103
Feed the spinoff heuristic!
CarlShulman
10y
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On Solving Problems Before They Appear: The Weird Epistemologies of Alignment
adamShimi
1y
11
82
Intuitions about solving hard problems
Richard_Ngo
7mo
23
80
Ed Boyden on the State of Science
Ben Pace
3y
2
76
No One Knows What Science Doesn't Know
Eliezer Yudkowsky
15y
107
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Diseased disciplines: the strange case of the inverted chart
Morendil
10y
150
74
The Balto/Togo theory of scientific development
Elizabeth
2mo
5
70
Shuttling between science and invention
jasoncrawford
2y
1
69
Paper reading as a Cargo Cult
jem-mosig
4mo
10
64
Problems with Academia and the Rising Sea
JonahS
9y
39
63
How good are our mouse models (psychology, biology, medicine, etc.), ignoring translation into humans, just in terms of understanding mice? (Same question for drosophila.)
Ruby
1y
10