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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
554
What an actually pessimistic containment strategy looks like
lc
8mo
136
308
You Are Not Measuring What You Think You Are Measuring
johnswentworth
3mo
38
281
Industrial literacy
jasoncrawford
2y
128
249
Science in a High-Dimensional World
johnswentworth
1y
51
228
Zoe Curzi's Experience with Leverage Research
Ilverin
1y
265
209
Gravity Turn
alkjash
1y
20
198
Common knowledge about Leverage Research 1.0
BayAreaHuman
1y
218
193
Why haven't we celebrated any major achievements lately?
jasoncrawford
2y
72
192
Can the Chain Still Hold You?
lukeprog
10y
361
187
Technological stagnation: Why I came around
jasoncrawford
1y
76
175
Thiel on Progress and Stagnation
Richard_Ngo
2y
36
162
Some cruxes on impactful alternatives to AI policy work
Richard_Ngo
4y
13
131
Sci-Hub sued in India
Connor_Flexman
1y
19
125
Why has nuclear power been a flop?
jasoncrawford
1y
46
524
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
240
A tale from Communist China
Wei_Dai
2y
65
231
Extreme Rationality: It's Not That Great
Scott Alexander
13y
281
229
An Observation of Vavilov Day
Elizabeth
11mo
42
226
Is Rationalist Self-Improvement Real?
Jacob Falkovich
3y
74
214
Eliezer's Sequences and Mainstream Academia
lukeprog
10y
157
209
"Flinching away from truth” is often about *protecting* the epistemology
AnnaSalamon
6y
56
180
The Rationalists of the 1950s (and before) also called themselves “Rationalists”
Owain_Evans
1y
28
179
Discontinuous progress in history: an update
KatjaGrace
2y
25
166
Rule Thinkers In, Not Out
Scott Alexander
3y
62
145
Cortés, Pizarro, and Afonso as Precedents for Takeover
Daniel Kokotajlo
2y
75
122
Rationality: From AI to Zombies
Rob Bensinger
7y
102
111
The bonds of family and community: Poverty and cruelty among Russian peasants in the late 19th century
jasoncrawford
1y
34