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Once upon a time, in ye olden days of strange names and before google maps, seven friends needed to figure out a driving route from their parking lot…
x So You Want To Make Marginal Progress... — LessWrong Intellectual Progress (Individual-Level) Intellectual Progress (Society-Level) World Modeling Rationality Curated 2025 Top Fifty: 35 % 311 So You Want To Make Marginal Progress... by johnswentworth 7th Feb 2025 5 min read 42 311 Once upon a time, in ye olden days of strange names and before google maps, seven friends needed to figure out a driving route from their parking lot in San Francisco (SF) down south to their hotel in Los Angeles (LA). The first friend, Alice, tackled the “central bottleneck” of the problem: she figured out that th
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