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Stagnation
281
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
175
Thiel on Progress and Stagnation
Richard_Ngo
2y
36
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
107
Why Weren't Hot Air Balloons Invented Sooner?
Lost Futures
2mo
52
106
Technology Changes Constraints
johnswentworth
2y
6
98
Instant stone (just add water!)
jasoncrawford
3y
28
90
Epistemic standards for “Why did it take so long to invent X?”
jasoncrawford
2y
16
554
What an actually pessimistic containment strategy looks like
lc
8mo
136
192
Can the Chain Still Hold You?
lukeprog
10y
361
187
Technological stagnation: Why I came around
jasoncrawford
1y
76
162
Some cruxes on impactful alternatives to AI policy work
Richard_Ngo
4y
13
103
Where are people thinking and talking about global coordination for AI safety?
Wei_Dai
3y
22
101
A review of Where Is My Flying Car? by J. Storrs Hall
jasoncrawford
2y
21
100
Why did we wait so long for the threshing machine?
jasoncrawford
1y
19
96
1960: The Year The Singularity Was Cancelled
Scott Alexander
3y
15
94
Analysis: US restricts GPU sales to China
aogara
2mo
58
92
[Answer] Why wasn't science invented in China?
Ruby
3y
46
91
Draining the swamp
jasoncrawford
2y
0
88
Highlights from The Autobiography of Andrew Carnegie
jasoncrawford
1y
7
83
The Robots, AI, and Unemployment Anti-FAQ
Eliezer Yudkowsky
9y
268
80
Instead of technical research, more people should focus on buying time
Akash
1mo
51