In­tel­lec­tual Progress (In­di­vi­d­ual-Level)

[Question] What makes peo­ple in­tel­lec­tu­ally ac­tive?

How To Write Quickly While Main­tain­ing Epistemic Rigor

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

The Zet­telkas­ten Method

Cap­tur­ing Ideas

Paper read­ing as a Cargo Cult

Writ­ing to think

Spiral Staircase

Mee­tups as In­sti­tu­tions for In­tel­lec­tual Progress

Align­ment Re­search Field Guide

Start Un­der the Streetlight, then Push into the Shadows

De­liber­ate and spon­ta­neous creativity

Fo­rum par­ti­ci­pa­tion as a re­search strategy

My Trial Pe­riod as an In­de­pen­dent Align­ment Researcher

Short Notes on Re­search Process

So You Want To Make Marginal Progress...

Level­ing Up Or Level­ing Off? Un­der­stand­ing The Science Be­hind Skill Plateaus

[Question] Build knowl­edge base first, or backchain?

[Question] How nec­es­sary is in­tu­ition, for ad­vanced math?

Vi­sual Bab­ble and Prune

Novelty Gen­er­a­tion—The Art of Good Ideas

How to do the­o­ret­i­cal re­search, a per­sonal perspective

[Ex­plo­ra­tory] What does it mean that an ex­per­i­ment is high bit?

Method­olog­i­cal Ther­apy: An Agenda For Tack­ling Re­search Bottlenecks

The Feel­ing of Idea Scarcity

Up­date on Book Re­view Dom­i­nant As­surance Contract

Qual­ities that al­ign­ment men­tors value in ju­nior researchers

Ask­ing for help as an O(1) lookup

Joseph Bloom on choos­ing AI Align­ment over bio, what many as­piring re­searchers get wrong, and more (in­ter­view)

[Question] Why is there a “clogged drain­pipe” effect in idea gen­er­a­tion?

Paper-Read­ing for Gears

Lak­shmi’s Magic Rope: An In­tu­itive Ex­pla­na­tion of Ra­manu­jan Primes

How to Find a Problem

A Tax­on­omy of Research

Film Study for Research

[Question] How can one train philo­soph­i­cal skill?

Epistemic Strate­gies of Selec­tion Theorems

How the ---- did Feyn­man Get Here !?

How (not) to choose a re­search project

Tell Your Ra­tion­al­ist Ori­gin Story… at Less Wrong

Books Wor­thy of Integration

Let’s Com­pare Notes

[Question] Can a stupid per­son be­come in­tel­li­gent?

[Question] How do you man­age your in­puts?

Vi­su­al­iz­ing Learned Rep­re­sen­ta­tions of Rice Disease

An­tag­o­nis­tic AI