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The Ter­ra­punk Man­i­festo—a So­larpunk alternative

Jack Nasjaq18 May 2022 20:59 UTC
20 points
6 comments10 min readPF link
(nasjaq.substack.com)

Tyler Cowen AMA

Tyler Cowen15 Jan 2023 19:48 UTC
19 points
77 comments1 min readPF link

A Cat­a­log of Big Vi­sions for Biology

Sam Rodriques1 Feb 2023 21:30 UTC
19 points
10 comments4 min readPF link
(www.sam-rodriques.com)

Rad­i­cal En­ergy Abundance

Casey Handmer10 Oct 2023 19:28 UTC
18 points
15 comments12 min readPF link

The mys­tery of the mir­a­cle year

Dwarkesh Patel16 Nov 2022 22:11 UTC
17 points
5 comments6 min readPF link
(www.dwarkeshpatel.com)

Bot­tling Lightning

Benjamin Reinhardt20 Jul 2022 17:28 UTC
17 points
0 comments11 min readPF link

The Foun­da­tional Tech Man­i­festo: What it will take to break through to Amer­ica 2.0

Gary Sheng22 Dec 2022 16:14 UTC
17 points
10 comments14 min readPF link

Think wider about the root causes of progress

jasoncrawford21 Dec 2022 20:05 UTC
16 points
8 comments4 min readPF link
(rootsofprogress.org)

Eli Dourado AMA

elidourado27 Jan 2023 17:51 UTC
15 points
74 comments1 min readPF link

“Progress” al­ter­na­tive to GiveWell?

Kevin Lacker29 Nov 2022 19:03 UTC
15 points
9 comments1 min readPF link

A Cure for My Cancer

Virginia Postrel3 Feb 2023 21:52 UTC
14 points
1 comment5 min readPF link
(vpostrel.substack.com)

An­nounc­ing the in­com­ing CEO for The Roots of Progress

jasoncrawford30 Nov 2022 23:04 UTC
14 points
4 comments1 min readPF link
(rootsofprogress.org)

Un­block­ing Abundance

Sarah Constantin12 Oct 2022 18:32 UTC
14 points
4 comments6 min readPF link
(sarahconstantin.substack.com)

Is In­no­va­tion in Hu­man Na­ture?

Anton Howes23 May 2022 1:11 UTC
14 points
7 comments3 min readPF link
(www.antonhowes.com)

Science is get­ting harder

mattclancy1 Jun 2022 3:15 UTC
14 points
4 comments15 min readPF link
(www.newthingsunderthesun.com)

Revving up the Progress Stud­ies Idea Machine

Pradyumna21 Jan 2023 1:39 UTC
13 points
6 comments2 min readPF link

Why progress needs futurism

elidourado25 Apr 2022 23:25 UTC
13 points
5 comments3 min readPF link

Bombs, Brains, and Science

ericgilliam3 May 2022 2:07 UTC
13 points
11 comments11 min readPF link
(freaktakes.substack.com)

AMA: Alli­son Duettmann, Fore­sight Institute

AllisonDuettmann17 Mar 2023 20:49 UTC
13 points
17 comments1 min readPF link

Peter Thiel’s Pes­simism Is (Largely) Mistaken

Marian L Tupy6 Dec 2022 22:57 UTC
13 points
7 comments3 min readPF link

Wel­come to the Progress Fo­rum!

jasoncrawford16 Nov 2022 21:15 UTC
13 points
4 comments1 min readPF link

AMA: Matt Clancy, Open Philanthropy

mattclancy10 Feb 2023 17:24 UTC
12 points
35 comments1 min readPF link

Start­ing the Jour­ney as CEO of the Roots of Progress

Heike Larson31 Jan 2023 21:16 UTC
12 points
5 comments4 min readPF link
(rootsofprogress.org)

Maybe a lit­tle bit of naïveté is good.

elidourado15 Dec 2022 15:00 UTC
12 points
7 comments1 min readPF link

Build­ing Fast and Slow: The Em­pire State Build­ing and the World Trade Cen­ter (Part I)

briancpotter3 Dec 2022 4:47 UTC
11 points
5 comments13 min readPF link
(constructionphysics.substack.com)

One Process

ganeumann23 May 2022 1:14 UTC
11 points
2 comments11 min readPF link
(reactionwheel.net)

The spiritual benefits of ma­te­rial progress

jasoncrawford19 Jan 2023 21:35 UTC
11 points
5 comments7 min readPF link
(rootsofprogress.org)

Pa­trick McKen­zie AMA

patio119 Dec 2022 23:08 UTC
11 points
63 comments1 min readPF link

AMA: Ben Rein­hardt, Spec­u­la­tive Technologies

Benjamin Reinhardt18 Feb 2023 0:49 UTC
11 points
26 comments1 min readPF link

Tell Good Stories

Rahul Rana15 Feb 2023 0:26 UTC
11 points
4 comments15 min readPF link
(www.notboring.co)

AMA: Ja­son Crawford, The Roots of Progress

jasoncrawford21 Nov 2022 22:06 UTC
10 points
40 comments1 min readPF link

An­nounc­ing The Techno-Hu­man­ist Man­i­festo: A new philos­o­phy of progress for the 21st century

jasoncrawford8 Jul 2024 16:33 UTC
10 points
5 comments5 min readPF link
(blog.rootsofprogress.org)

Where are the robotic brick­lay­ers?

briancpotter12 May 2022 12:22 UTC
10 points
2 comments10 min readPF link
(constructionphysics.substack.com)

The Com­mis­sion for Stop­ping Fur­ther Im­prove­ments: A let­ter of note from Isam­bard K. Brunel

jasoncrawford21 Apr 2023 17:42 UTC
10 points
0 comments4 min readPF link
(rootsofprogress.org)

Vi­talik on sci­ence, his philan­thropy, progress and effec­tive al­tru­ism.

vincentweisser18 Jan 2023 23:19 UTC
10 points
0 comments1 min readPF link

The Enemy’s Gate is Down: the State of NYC Hous­ing Abundance

Daniel Golliher16 Dec 2022 4:25 UTC
10 points
2 comments18 min readPF link
(maximumnewyork.com)

In­tro­duc­tions thread (please in­tro­duce your­self)

jasoncrawford1 Dec 2022 21:29 UTC
10 points
23 comments1 min readPF link

How Karl Comp­ton be­lieved a re­search de­part­ment should be run

ericgilliam20 Nov 2022 20:10 UTC
9 points
5 comments12 min readPF link
(freaktakes.substack.com)

The Rise of Steel—Part I

briancpotter6 Feb 2023 22:10 UTC
9 points
0 comments16 min readPF link
(constructionphysics.substack.com)

Beyond the mo­ment of invention

jasoncrawford16 Dec 2022 20:18 UTC
9 points
1 comment2 min readPF link
(rootsofprogress.org)

List of Book Recommendations

ryan_b26 Nov 2022 23:51 UTC
9 points
11 comments1 min readPF link

Why pes­simism sounds smart

jasoncrawford25 Apr 2022 20:10 UTC
9 points
5 comments1 min readPF link
(rootsofprogress.org)

Works in Progress Is­sue 09 is out today

Nick8 Dec 2022 17:38 UTC
9 points
0 comments1 min readPF link
(www.worksinprogress.co)

What if they gave an In­dus­trial Revolu­tion and no­body came?

jasoncrawford17 May 2023 19:41 UTC
9 points
7 comments18 min readPF link
(rootsofprogress.org)

Wizards and prophets of AI [draft for com­ment]

jasoncrawford31 Mar 2023 20:22 UTC
9 points
6 comments6 min readPF link

Why you, per­son­ally, should want a larger hu­man population

jasoncrawford23 Feb 2024 19:48 UTC
8 points
2 comments5 min readPF link
(rootsofprogress.org)

The Offense-Defense Balance Rarely Changes

Maxwell Tabarrok9 Dec 2023 15:22 UTC
8 points
2 comments3 min readPF link
(maximumprogress.substack.com)

Where I have landed on “ideas get­ting harder to find”, in a nutshell

jasoncrawford18 Oct 2023 23:13 UTC
8 points
6 comments1 min readPF link

FAA’s safety philos­o­phy and progress in per­sonal aviation

elidourado23 Oct 2023 15:34 UTC
8 points
1 comment1 min readPF link

Some­thing Is Get­ting Harder To Find But It’s Not Ideas

Maxwell Tabarrok11 Oct 2023 17:16 UTC
8 points
6 comments6 min readPF link
(maximumprogress.substack.com)