Collection of everything I know of that explicitly uses the terms differential progress / intellectual progress / 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 / intellectual progress / 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: “Is it better to try to stop the development of a technology, or to try to get there first and shape how it is used?”—Michael Aird (i.e., me), 2021
Differential Intellectual Progress as a Positive-Sum Project—Tomasik, 2013/2015
Differential technological development: Some early thinking—Beckstead (for GiveWell), 2015/2016
Differential progress—EA Concepts
Differential technological development—Wikipedia
Existential Risk and Economic Growth—Aschenbrenner, 2019 (summary by Alex HT here)
On Progress and Prosperity—Christiano, 2014
How useful is “progress”? - Christiano, ~2013
Differential intellectual progress—LW Wiki
Existential Risks: Analyzing Human Extinction Scenarios—Bostrom, 2002 (section 9.4) (introduced the term differential technological development, I think)
Intelligence Explosion: Evidence and Import—Muehlhauser & Salamon (for MIRI) (section 4.2) (introduced the term differential intellectual development, I think)
The Precipice—Ord, 2020 (page 206)
Superintelligence—Bostrom, 2014
Some sources that are quite relevant but that don’t explicitly use those terms
Strategic Implications of Openness in AI Development—Bostrom, 2017
Related concepts
The growth of our “power” (or “science and technology”) vs our “wisdom” (see, e.g., page 34 of The Precipice)
The “pacing problem” (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.