Collection of everything I know of that explicitly uses the terms differential progress /ā intellectual progress /ā 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 /ā intellectual progress /ā 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: āIs it better to try to stop the development of a technology, or to try to get there first and shape how it is used?āāMichael Aird (i.e., me), 2021
Differential Intellectual Progress as a Positive-Sum ProjectāTomasik, 2013/ā2015
Differential technological development: Some early thinkingāBeckstead (for GiveWell), 2015/ā2016
Differential progressāEA Concepts
Differential technological developmentāWikipedia
Existential Risk and Economic GrowthāAschenbrenner, 2019 (summary by Alex HT here)
On Progress and ProsperityāChristiano, 2014
How useful is āprogressā? - Christiano, ~2013
Differential intellectual progressāLW Wiki
Existential Risks: Analyzing Human Extinction ScenariosāBostrom, 2002 (section 9.4) (introduced the term differential technological development, I think)
Intelligence Explosion: Evidence and ImportāMuehlhauser & Salamon (for MIRI) (section 4.2) (introduced the term differential intellectual development, I think)
The PrecipiceāOrd, 2020 (page 206)
SuperintelligenceāBostrom, 2014
Some sources that are quite relevant but that donāt explicitly use those terms
Strategic Implications of Openness in AI DevelopmentāBostrom, 2017
Related concepts
The growth of our āpowerā (or āscience and technologyā) vs our āwisdomā (see, e.g., page 34 of The Precipice)
The āpacing problemā (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.