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Intellectual Progress (Society-Level)
Intellectual Progress via LessWrong
59 posts
Practice & Philosophy of Science
History & Philosophy of Science
209
Gravity Turn
alkjash
1y
20
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
95
Productive Mistakes, Not Perfect Answers
adamShimi
8mo
11
84
MATS Models
johnswentworth
5mo
5
69
For progress to be by accumulation and not by random walk, read great books
MichaelVassar
12y
115
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The YouTube Revolution in Knowledge Transfer
Samo Burja
3y
7
60
How to Find the Frontiers of Knowledge
Samo Burja
2y
1
56
Suggestions of posts on the AF to review
adamShimi
1y
20
55
On the Loss and Preservation of Knowledge
Samo Burja
4y
20
54
Methodological Therapy: An Agenda For Tackling Research Bottlenecks
adamShimi
2mo
6
51
Start Under the Streetlight, then Push into the Shadows
lukeprog
9y
29
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Is the rate of scientific progress slowing down? (by Tyler Cowen and Ben Southwood)
Ben Pace
3y
6
308
You Are Not Measuring What You Think You Are Measuring
johnswentworth
3mo
38
249
Science in a High-Dimensional World
johnswentworth
1y
51
131
Sci-Hub sued in India
Connor_Flexman
1y
19
97
On Solving Problems Before They Appear: The Weird Epistemologies of Alignment
adamShimi
1y
11
92
Intuitions about solving hard problems
Richard_Ngo
7mo
23
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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Paper reading as a Cargo Cult
jem-mosig
4mo
10
64
The Balto/Togo theory of scientific development
Elizabeth
2mo
5
62
Diseased disciplines: the strange case of the inverted chart
Morendil
10y
150
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Ed Boyden on the State of Science
Ben Pace
3y
2
61
Shuttling between science and invention
jasoncrawford
2y
1
60
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
58
When Science Can't Help
Eliezer Yudkowsky
14y
70