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What an actually pessimistic containment strategy looks like
lc
8mo
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Industrial literacy
jasoncrawford
2y
128
228
Zoe Curzi's Experience with Leverage Research
Ilverin
1y
265
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
125
Why has nuclear power been a flop?
jasoncrawford
1y
46
121
The 300-year journey to the covid vaccine
jasoncrawford
2y
9
121
Is Science Slowing Down?
Scott Alexander
4y
77
115
In Defense of Attempting Hard Things, and my story of the Leverage ecosystem
Cathleen
1y
44
108
The lessons of Xanadu
jasoncrawford
4mo
20
308
You Are Not Measuring What You Think You Are Measuring
johnswentworth
3mo
38
249
Science in a High-Dimensional World
johnswentworth
1y
51
209
Gravity Turn
alkjash
1y
20
131
Sci-Hub sued in India
Connor_Flexman
1y
19
117
The Copernican Revolution from the Inside
jacobjacob
5y
46
104
Lessons from “The Book of My Life”
bmgarfinkel
1y
3
104
What's Wrong with Social Science and How to Fix It: Reflections After Reading 2578 Papers
habryka
2y
22
97
On Solving Problems Before They Appear: The Weird Epistemologies of Alignment
adamShimi
1y
11
95
Productive Mistakes, Not Perfect Answers
adamShimi
8mo
11
92
Intuitions about solving hard problems
Richard_Ngo
7mo
23
84
MATS Models
johnswentworth
5mo
5
81
Feed the spinoff heuristic!
CarlShulman
10y
91
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No One Knows What Science Doesn't Know
Eliezer Yudkowsky
15y
107
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For progress to be by accumulation and not by random walk, read great books
MichaelVassar
12y
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