Link post
AI Grant’s second batch is now accepting applications (via @natfriedman)
Longevity Biotech Fellowship 2 is also accepting applications (via @allisondman)
Science writing office hours with Niko McCarty (this one over but more in the future)
I-95 reopened in just 12 days after a section of it collapsed. Gov. Shapiro says this proves “that we can do big things again in Pennsylvania”
Arcadia Science will publish their abandoned projects (via @stuartbuck1)
Short interview with the Hiroshima bombing mission lead (via @michael_nielsen)
When was the last time a positive vision of the future took hold?
What should Tyler Cowen ask Paul Graham?
What should Dwarkesh Patel ask Andy Matuschak?
Who should Eric Gilliam meet in/near London?
How do airlines pool information / make agreements on safety and avoid antitrust?
A FAQ that addresses the arguments/concerns of vaccine skeptics?
“I wonder that the Lord God has kept such things hidden”
“The Flat Iron is to the United States what the Parthenon was to Greece”
The terrible treatment of the girls who worked in the Bryant and May match factory
Claim: now is an “acute risk period” that only ends with a “global immune system”
Concerns about AI are warranted, but there are very valid counter-arguments
An AI doom syllogism
On the paper “Optimal Policies Tend to Seek Power”
Gear teeth are way more nuanced than you would expect
A brief thread of wonder at the modern world
Staying up to date on news by tracking prediction markets
Floor raisers vs. ceiling raisers
Induction vs. deduction / empiricism vs. rationalism are the falsest dichotomies
What someone’s unwillingness to debate says about their position
“How easy is it for a kid to operate a lemonade stand?” as a city metric. Kennett Square, PA and Tooele, UT score well
A 13-story, 245-unit timber high rise that would be illegal to build in the US
Postel’s law for feedback
Things that “made the modern world,” according to book titles
“You can count on coal!” (1952)
America’s worst nightmare according to Popular Mechanics, 2004
For Juneteenth, the progress of black Americans in wealth per capita
Death rates from “external causes”
Jason’s links and tweets, 2023-06-28: “We can do big things again in Pennsylvania”
Link post
Opportunities
AI Grant’s second batch is now accepting applications (via @natfriedman)
Longevity Biotech Fellowship 2 is also accepting applications (via @allisondman)
Science writing office hours with Niko McCarty (this one over but more in the future)
News & links
I-95 reopened in just 12 days after a section of it collapsed. Gov. Shapiro says this proves “that we can do big things again in Pennsylvania”
Arcadia Science will publish their abandoned projects (via @stuartbuck1)
Short interview with the Hiroshima bombing mission lead (via @michael_nielsen)
Queries
When was the last time a positive vision of the future took hold?
What should Tyler Cowen ask Paul Graham?
What should Dwarkesh Patel ask Andy Matuschak?
Who should Eric Gilliam meet in/near London?
How do airlines pool information / make agreements on safety and avoid antitrust?
A FAQ that addresses the arguments/concerns of vaccine skeptics?
Quotes
“I wonder that the Lord God has kept such things hidden”
“The Flat Iron is to the United States what the Parthenon was to Greece”
The terrible treatment of the girls who worked in the Bryant and May match factory
AI risk
Claim: now is an “acute risk period” that only ends with a “global immune system”
Concerns about AI are warranted, but there are very valid counter-arguments
An AI doom syllogism
On the paper “Optimal Policies Tend to Seek Power”
Tweets
Gear teeth are way more nuanced than you would expect
A brief thread of wonder at the modern world
Staying up to date on news by tracking prediction markets
Floor raisers vs. ceiling raisers
Induction vs. deduction / empiricism vs. rationalism are the falsest dichotomies
What someone’s unwillingness to debate says about their position
“How easy is it for a kid to operate a lemonade stand?” as a city metric. Kennett Square, PA and Tooele, UT score well
A 13-story, 245-unit timber high rise that would be illegal to build in the US
Postel’s law for feedback
Things that “made the modern world,” according to book titles
“You can count on coal!” (1952)
America’s worst nightmare according to Popular Mechanics, 2004
Charts
For Juneteenth, the progress of black Americans in wealth per capita
Death rates from “external causes”