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In­tel­lec­tual Progress (So­ciety-Level)

TagLast edit: 19 Aug 2020 23:15 UTC by Ruby

Intellectual Progress is the progressive accumulation of knowledge. Questions include How is intellectual progress made? and How do we make more? The Scholarship & Learning tag [LINK] is focused on the learning and research of individuals. In contrast, Intellectual Progress is about how we, humanity, collectively make progress on important questions. What broader conditions, institutions, and technologies enable progress?

[TO-DO: link to Progress Studied tag, Scholarship & Learning, Science tags]

On Solv­ing Prob­lems Be­fore They Ap­pear: The Weird Episte­molo­gies of Alignment

adamShimi11 Oct 2021 8:20 UTC
107 points
10 comments15 min readLW link

Episte­molog­i­cal Fram­ing for AI Align­ment Research

adamShimi8 Mar 2021 22:05 UTC
55 points
7 comments9 min readLW link

[An­swer] Why wasn’t sci­ence in­vented in China?

Ruby23 Apr 2019 21:47 UTC
94 points
46 comments21 min readLW link1 review

[Question] How do we iden­tify bot­tle­necks to sci­en­tific and tech­nolog­i­cal progress?

NaiveTortoise31 Dec 2018 20:21 UTC
31 points
12 comments2 min readLW link

How to an­a­lyze progress, stag­na­tion, and low-hang­ing fruit

jasoncrawford15 Jun 2020 21:02 UTC
42 points
9 comments4 min readLW link
(rootsofprogress.org)

[Question] Which sci­en­tific dis­cov­ery was most ahead of its time?

Richard_Ngo16 May 2019 12:58 UTC
38 points
14 comments1 min readLW link

Is the rate of sci­en­tific progress slow­ing down? (by Tyler Cowen and Ben South­wood)

Ben Pace2 Dec 2019 3:45 UTC
49 points
6 comments1 min readLW link
(docs.google.com)

The Fu­ture of Science

Richard_Ngo28 Jul 2020 2:43 UTC
21 points
2 comments7 min readLW link

In­tel­lec­tual Progress In­side and Out­side Academia

Ben Pace2 Sep 2017 23:08 UTC
40 points
5 comments14 min readLW link

Pre­dic­tion Mar­kets for Science

Vaniver2 Jan 2023 17:55 UTC
27 points
7 comments5 min readLW link

The Coper­ni­can Revolu­tion from the Inside

jacobjacob1 Nov 2017 10:51 UTC
122 points
45 comments19 min readLW link

Study­ing Early Stage Science: Re­search Pro­gram Introduction

habryka17 Jan 2020 22:12 UTC
32 points
1 comment15 min readLW link
(medium.com)

What’s Wrong with So­cial Science and How to Fix It: Reflec­tions After Read­ing 2578 Papers

habryka12 Sep 2020 1:46 UTC
107 points
22 comments2 min readLW link
(fantasticanachronism.com)

On the Loss and Preser­va­tion of Knowledge

Samo Burja8 Mar 2018 18:40 UTC
66 points
20 comments10 min readLW link
(medium.com)

MATS Models

johnswentworth9 Jul 2022 0:14 UTC
86 points
5 comments16 min readLW link

Pro­duc­tive Mis­takes, Not Perfect Answers

adamShimi7 Apr 2022 16:41 UTC
97 points
11 comments6 min readLW link

Why Aca­demic Papers Are A Ter­rible Dis­cus­sion Forum

alyssavance20 Jun 2012 18:15 UTC
45 points
53 comments6 min readLW link

For progress to be by ac­cu­mu­la­tion and not by ran­dom walk, read great books

MichaelVassar2 Mar 2010 8:11 UTC
75 points
115 comments3 min readLW link

Paper read­ing as a Cargo Cult

jem-mosig7 Aug 2022 7:50 UTC
70 points
10 comments5 min readLW link

[Question] How of­ten are new ideas dis­cov­ered in old pa­pers?

TurnTrout26 Jul 2019 1:00 UTC
23 points
5 comments1 min readLW link

How to Find the Fron­tiers of Knowledge

Samo Burja30 Oct 2020 10:50 UTC
60 points
1 comment9 min readLW link
(medium.com)

Epistemic Arte­facts of (con­cep­tual) AI al­ign­ment research

19 Aug 2022 17:18 UTC
30 points
1 comment5 min readLW link

The YouTube Revolu­tion in Knowl­edge Transfer

Samo Burja17 Sep 2019 20:10 UTC
67 points
7 comments4 min readLW link
(medium.com)

Why ev­ery­thing might have taken so long

KatjaGrace1 Jan 2018 1:00 UTC
112 points
16 comments3 min readLW link1 review
(meteuphoric.wordpress.com)

Is Science Slow­ing Down?

Scott Alexander27 Nov 2018 3:30 UTC
125 points
77 comments9 min readLW link1 review
(slatestarcodex.com)

Some ex­am­ples of tech­nol­ogy timelines

NunoSempere27 Mar 2020 18:13 UTC
24 points
0 comments16 min readLW link

Epistemic stan­dards for “Why did it take so long to in­vent X?”

jasoncrawford2 Mar 2020 18:58 UTC
90 points
16 comments6 min readLW link
(rootsofprogress.org)

Why did ev­ery­thing take so long?

KatjaGrace29 Dec 2017 1:00 UTC
33 points
17 comments1 min readLW link
(meteuphoric.wordpress.com)

Blog posts as epistemic trust builders

Adam Zerner27 Sep 2020 1:47 UTC
18 points
7 comments2 min readLW link

Levels of Pluralism

adamShimi27 Jul 2022 9:35 UTC
34 points
0 comments14 min readLW link

AI do­ing philos­o­phy = AI gen­er­at­ing hands?

Wei Dai15 Jan 2024 9:04 UTC
44 points
19 comments1 min readLW link

Don’t sleep on Co­or­di­na­tion Takeoffs

trevor27 Jan 2024 19:55 UTC
57 points
23 comments5 min readLW link

Some (prob­le­matic) aes­thet­ics of what con­sti­tutes good work in academia

Steven Byrnes11 Mar 2024 17:47 UTC
146 points
12 comments12 min readLW link

United We Align: Har­ness­ing Col­lec­tive Hu­man In­tel­li­gence for AI Align­ment Progress

Shoshannah Tekofsky20 Apr 2023 23:19 UTC
41 points
13 comments25 min readLW link

The Just World Hypothesis

michael_vassar29 Oct 2017 6:03 UTC
17 points
9 comments3 min readLW link

Start Un­der the Streetlight, then Push into the Shadows

lukeprog24 Jun 2013 0:49 UTC
52 points
29 comments8 min readLW link

Char­ac­ter­iz­ing Real-World Agents as a Re­search Meta-Strategy

johnswentworth8 Oct 2019 15:32 UTC
29 points
4 comments5 min readLW link

De­liber­ate and spon­ta­neous creativity

Kaj_Sotala29 Mar 2009 19:45 UTC
28 points
30 comments4 min readLW link

LW2.0: Tech­nol­ogy Plat­form for In­tel­lec­tual Progress

Ruby19 Jun 2019 20:25 UTC
31 points
5 comments7 min readLW link

LW2.0: Com­mu­nity, Cul­ture, and In­tel­lec­tual Progress

Ruby19 Jun 2019 20:25 UTC
27 points
2 comments6 min readLW link

Mee­tups as In­sti­tu­tions for In­tel­lec­tual Progress

mingyuan17 Sep 2019 5:23 UTC
91 points
26 comments7 min readLW link

Mus­ings on LessWrong Peer Review

Raemon18 Mar 2018 21:47 UTC
47 points
23 comments5 min readLW link

On the im­por­tance of Less Wrong, or an­other sin­gle con­ver­sa­tional locus

AnnaSalamon27 Nov 2016 17:13 UTC
173 points
365 comments4 min readLW link

Learn­ing To Love Scien­tific Consensus

Scott Alexander2 Sep 2017 8:44 UTC
29 points
1 comment19 min readLW link

The Ba­co­nian Method (Novum Or­ganum Book 1: 93-107)

Francis Bacon10 Oct 2019 18:54 UTC
28 points
1 comment11 min readLW link

A brief his­tory of computers

Adam Zerner19 Jul 2023 2:59 UTC
71 points
18 comments33 min readLW link

[Question] What makes peo­ple in­tel­lec­tu­ally ac­tive?

abramdemski29 Dec 2018 22:29 UTC
116 points
71 comments1 min readLW link

The effi­ciency of prizes

lukeprog3 Apr 2012 21:45 UTC
39 points
18 comments2 min readLW link

Pas­teur’s quadrant

jasoncrawford5 Jun 2020 17:47 UTC
34 points
2 comments5 min readLW link
(rootsofprogress.org)

Shut­tling be­tween sci­ence and invention

jasoncrawford27 May 2020 21:25 UTC
61 points
1 comment6 min readLW link1 review
(rootsofprogress.org)

Re­view of “Fun with +12 OOMs of Com­pute”

28 Mar 2021 14:55 UTC
63 points
21 comments8 min readLW link1 review

Les­sons from “The Book of My Life”

bmgarfinkel6 Jan 2021 22:40 UTC
114 points
3 comments16 min readLW link
(benmgarfinkel.wordpress.com)

Look­ing Deeper at Deconfusion

adamShimi13 Jun 2021 21:29 UTC
61 points
13 comments15 min readLW link

[Question] Why not more small, in­tense re­search teams?

eg5 Aug 2021 11:57 UTC
19 points
9 comments1 min readLW link

Com­bin­ing two posts: Blank­face (Scott Aa) and Is Science Slow­ing Down? (Scott Al)

William Gasarch9 Aug 2021 17:37 UTC
10 points
0 comments1 min readLW link

How can we in­crease the fre­quency of rare in­sights?

MichaelDickens19 Apr 2021 22:54 UTC
19 points
10 comments5 min readLW link

Grav­ity Turn

alkjash16 Aug 2021 19:20 UTC
218 points
21 comments5 min readLW link1 review
(radimentary.wordpress.com)

Blind Spots in Science and Culture

rogersbacon2 Sep 2021 0:02 UTC
7 points
3 comments15 min readLW link

Pri­ori­ti­za­tion Re­search for Ad­vanc­ing Wis­dom and Intelligence

ozziegooen18 Oct 2021 22:28 UTC
49 points
8 comments5 min readLW link
(forum.effectivealtruism.org)

An anal­ogy as the mid­wife of thermodynamics

adamShimi16 Feb 2022 21:34 UTC
30 points
10 comments7 min readLW link

Be­com­ing Stronger as Episte­mol­o­gist: Introduction

adamShimi15 Feb 2022 6:15 UTC
30 points
2 comments4 min readLW link

What The Foucault

adamShimi19 Feb 2022 22:48 UTC
39 points
6 comments3 min readLW link

The Art and Science of In­tu­ition Pumping

adamShimi22 Feb 2022 0:18 UTC
26 points
3 comments9 min readLW link

Re­plac­ing Nat­u­ral Interpretations

adamShimi16 Mar 2022 13:05 UTC
16 points
0 comments7 min readLW link

What do paradigm shifts look like?

leogao16 Mar 2022 19:17 UTC
18 points
2 comments1 min readLW link

On Con­text And People

Jan19 Mar 2022 23:38 UTC
7 points
0 comments10 min readLW link
(universalprior.substack.com)

Distributed blind re­view site for papers

Jonas Kgomo21 Apr 2022 22:51 UTC
2 points
1 comment1 min readLW link

In­tu­itions about solv­ing hard problems

Richard_Ngo25 Apr 2022 15:29 UTC
102 points
23 comments6 min readLW link

An aca­demic jour­nal is just a Twit­ter feed

David Hugh-Jones27 May 2022 11:14 UTC
13 points
3 comments2 min readLW link
(wyclif.substack.com)

Episte­molog­i­cal Vigilance for Alignment

adamShimi6 Jun 2022 0:27 UTC
65 points
11 comments10 min readLW link

How to Diver­sify Con­cep­tual Align­ment: the Model Be­hind Refine

adamShimi20 Jul 2022 10:44 UTC
87 points
11 comments8 min readLW link

[Question] What are some Works that might be use­ful but are difficult, so for­got­ten?

TekhneMakre9 Aug 2022 2:22 UTC
10 points
5 comments1 min readLW link

Please (re)ex­plain your per­sonal jargon

Nathan Helm-Burger22 Aug 2022 14:30 UTC
19 points
4 comments4 min readLW link

Method­olog­i­cal Ther­apy: An Agenda For Tack­ling Re­search Bottlenecks

22 Sep 2022 18:41 UTC
54 points
6 comments9 min readLW link

Open Prob­lems Create Paradigms

johnswentworth9 Nov 2020 20:04 UTC
49 points
4 comments2 min readLW link

1960: The Year The Sin­gu­lar­ity Was Cancelled

Scott Alexander23 Apr 2019 1:30 UTC
103 points
15 comments11 min readLW link1 review
(slatestarcodex.com)

Po­ten­tial fac­tors in Bell Labs’ in­tel­lec­tual progress, Pt. 1

Ruby12 Feb 2021 19:26 UTC
50 points
6 comments8 min readLW link

[Question] Sugges­tions of posts on the AF to review

adamShimi16 Feb 2021 12:40 UTC
56 points
20 comments1 min readLW link

Paradigms and The­ory Choice in AI: Adap­tivity, Econ­omy and Control

particlemania28 Aug 2023 22:19 UTC
4 points
0 comments16 min readLW link

Peter Thiel warns of up­com­ing (and cur­rent) stagnation

SilasBarta4 Oct 2011 17:30 UTC
36 points
121 comments2 min readLW link

Build­ing Some­thing Smarter

Eliezer Yudkowsky2 Nov 2008 17:00 UTC
25 points
57 comments4 min readLW link

If Van der Waals was a neu­ral network

George3d628 Jan 2020 18:38 UTC
18 points
3 comments11 min readLW link
(blog.cerebralab.com)

That You’d Tell All Your Friends

Eliezer Yudkowsky1 Mar 2009 12:04 UTC
8 points
53 comments1 min readLW link

Chat­bots as a Publi­ca­tion Format

derek shiller30 Dec 2022 14:11 UTC
6 points
6 comments4 min readLW link

[Question] The tech left behind

Leafcraft12 Mar 2019 14:47 UTC
25 points
22 comments1 min readLW link

Kevin Sim­ler’s “Go­ing Crit­i­cal”

habryka16 May 2019 4:36 UTC
56 points
1 comment1 min readLW link
(www.meltingasphalt.com)

An­tag­o­nis­tic AI

Xybermancer1 Mar 2024 18:50 UTC
−8 points
1 comment1 min readLW link

Cul­tural accumulation

KatjaGrace6 Dec 2020 6:20 UTC
93 points
53 comments3 min readLW link
(meteuphoric.com)

A con­cep­tual pre­cur­sor to to­day’s lan­guage ma­chines [Shan­non]

Bill Benzon15 Nov 2023 13:50 UTC
24 points
6 comments2 min readLW link

[Question] Is LW mak­ing progress?

zulupineapple24 Aug 2019 0:32 UTC
21 points
11 comments1 min readLW link

[Question] What do you think should be in­cluded in a se­ries about con­cep­tual me­dia?

Polytopos31 Dec 2020 1:40 UTC
2 points
5 comments1 min readLW link

Align­ment’s phlo­gis­ton

Eleni Angelou18 Aug 2022 22:27 UTC
10 points
2 comments2 min readLW link

Miss­ing fore­cast­ing tools: from cat­a­logs to a new kind of pre­dic­tion market

MichaelLatowicki29 Mar 2023 9:55 UTC
14 points
0 comments5 min readLW link

Is Progress Real?

rogersbacon10 Jan 2023 17:42 UTC
5 points
14 comments14 min readLW link
(www.secretorum.life)

Pre­serv­ing our her­i­tage: Build­ing a move­ment and a knowl­edge ark for cur­rent and fu­ture generations

rnk829 Nov 2023 19:20 UTC
0 points
5 comments12 min readLW link

Your posts should be on arXiv

JanB25 Aug 2022 10:35 UTC
149 points
44 comments3 min readLW link

Values Darwinism

pchvykov22 Jan 2024 10:44 UTC
11 points
13 comments3 min readLW link

Where Utopias Go Wrong, or: The Four Lit­tle Planets

ExCeph27 May 2022 1:24 UTC
15 points
0 comments11 min readLW link
(ginnungagapfoundation.wordpress.com)

Why Weren’t Hot Air Bal­loons In­vented Sooner?

Lost Futures18 Oct 2022 0:41 UTC
115 points
52 comments6 min readLW link
(lostfutures.substack.com)

When An­thro­po­mor­phism Be­came Stupid

Eliezer Yudkowsky16 Aug 2008 23:43 UTC
53 points
12 comments3 min readLW link

Pro­lifer­at­ing Education

Haris Rashid20 Dec 2022 19:22 UTC
−1 points
2 comments5 min readLW link
(www.harisrab.com)

The Frac­tal Fris­sons Reli­gion: Un­veiling the Im­mutable Pat­terns of the Universe

MilesSam20 Nov 2023 18:43 UTC
1 point
0 comments17 min readLW link
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