Collection of everything I know of that explicitly uses the terms differential progress /â intellectual progress /â technological development, except Forum posts)
This originally collected Forum posts as well, but now that is collected by the Differential progress tag.
Collection of everything I know of that explicitly uses the terms differential progress /â intellectual progress /â technological development, except Forum posts)
This originally collected Forum posts as well, but now that is collected by the Differential progress tag.
Quick thoughts on the question: âIs it better to try to stop the development of a technology, or to try to get there first and shape how it is used?ââMichael Aird (i.e., me), 2021
Differential Intellectual Progress as a Positive-Sum ProjectâTomasik, 2013/â2015
Differential technological development: Some early thinkingâBeckstead (for GiveWell), 2015/â2016
Differential progressâEA Concepts
Differential technological developmentâWikipedia
Existential Risk and Economic GrowthâAschenbrenner, 2019 (summary by Alex HT here)
On Progress and ProsperityâChristiano, 2014
How useful is âprogressâ? - Christiano, ~2013
Differential intellectual progressâLW Wiki
Existential Risks: Analyzing Human Extinction ScenariosâBostrom, 2002 (section 9.4) (introduced the term differential technological development, I think)
Intelligence Explosion: Evidence and ImportâMuehlhauser & Salamon (for MIRI) (section 4.2) (introduced the term differential intellectual development, I think)
The PrecipiceâOrd, 2020 (page 206)
SuperintelligenceâBostrom, 2014
Some sources that are quite relevant but that donât explicitly use those terms
Strategic Implications of Openness in AI DevelopmentâBostrom, 2017
Related concepts
The growth of our âpowerâ (or âscience and technologyâ) vs our âwisdomâ (see, e.g., page 34 of The Precipice)
The âpacing problemâ (see, e.g., footnote 57 in Chapter 1 of The Precipice)
I intend to add to this list over time. If you know of other relevant work, please mention it in a comment.