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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)

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

The mys­tery of the mir­a­cle year

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

Think wider about the root causes of progress

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

“Progress” al­ter­na­tive to GiveWell?

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

Science is get­ting harder

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

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)

An­nounc­ing the in­com­ing CEO for The Roots of Progress

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

Wel­come to the Progress Fo­rum!

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

Why progress needs futurism

elidourado25 Apr 2022 23:25 UTC
13 points
5 comments3 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

Bombs, Brains, and Science

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

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)

Pa­trick McKen­zie AMA

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

One Process

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

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)

AMA: Ja­son Crawford, The Roots of Progress

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

Where are the robotic brick­lay­ers?

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

List of Book Recommendations

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

Beyond the mo­ment of invention

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

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)

Progress stud­ies as an (in­com­plete) “idea ma­chine”

jasoncrawford13 May 2022 14:14 UTC
8 points
6 comments2 min readPF link

Na­ture of progress in Deep Learning

karpathy15 May 2022 2:43 UTC
8 points
4 comments2 min readPF link

The Book of T: An Ex­e­ge­sis of The Great­est Paper in Eco­nomic History

daviskedrosky3 Jun 2022 19:44 UTC
8 points
1 comment8 min readPF link
(daviskedrosky.substack.com)

Launch­ing: Scal­ing Knowl­edge—A new sub­stack about episte­mol­ogy, AI, star­tups, and progress

Moritz Wallawitsch28 Nov 2022 20:51 UTC
8 points
0 comments1 min readPF link

Rein­vent­ing the wheel

jasoncrawford4 Jun 2022 22:39 UTC
8 points
0 comments2 min readPF link
(rootsofprogress.org)

Why Wasn’t the Steam Eng­ine In­vented Ear­lier? Part I

Anton Howes14 Jun 2022 17:44 UTC
7 points
4 comments11 min readPF link
(antonhowes.substack.com)

How this fo­rum can build up a canon of progress think­ing over the long term

jasoncrawford21 May 2022 19:40 UTC
7 points
0 comments1 min readPF link

Can growth con­tinue?

jasoncrawford27 May 2022 16:14 UTC
7 points
2 comments3 min readPF link
(rootsofprogress.org)

[Question] Why is there no equiv­a­lent of the VC in­dus­try, but for patentable in­ven­tions in­stead of star­tups?

jasoncrawford9 May 2022 17:31 UTC
7 points
7 comments1 min readPF link

Where is “Progress Stud­ies” Go­ing?

AdamThierer23 Apr 2022 19:43 UTC
7 points
9 comments5 min readPF link

Ta­lent sort­ing in Ger­many is flawed

Simon Grimm23 Nov 2022 0:09 UTC
7 points
7 comments6 min readPF link

Com­par­ing pro­cess im­prove­ment in man­u­fac­tur­ing and con­struc­tion: Duco vs Drywall

briancpotter19 Nov 2022 1:29 UTC
7 points
0 comments7 min readPF link
(constructionphysics.substack.com)

In­tel­lec­tual Prop­erty Is Worse Than You Think

Maxwell Tabarrok10 May 2022 22:19 UTC
7 points
4 comments4 min readPF link

State ca­pac­ity eats in­ter­est rates for lunch

elidourado16 Jun 2022 0:53 UTC
7 points
3 comments1 min readPF link
(www.thecgo.org)

It’s time to build: A New World’s Fair

Cameron Wiese5 May 2022 0:03 UTC
7 points
5 comments5 min readPF link
(www.cameronwiese.com)

Progress and Disabilities

Taylor Barkley7 Jul 2022 22:41 UTC
7 points
2 comments7 min readPF link

In­ter­view with me on Hear this Idea with Fin Moorhouse and Luca Righetti

jasoncrawford17 May 2022 21:05 UTC
7 points
4 comments1 min readPF link

When should an idea that smells like re­search be a startup?

Benjamin Reinhardt18 May 2022 0:26 UTC
7 points
1 comment10 min readPF link
(parpa.substack.com)

How cur­ing ag­ing could help progress

jasoncrawford22 May 2022 22:43 UTC
7 points
7 comments1 min readPF link
(rootsofprogress.org)

Hu­man­ity Lacks Imag­i­na­tion to Solve Aging

tomaspueyo13 Jun 2022 20:26 UTC
6 points
2 comments1 min readPF link

We won the war on in­fec­tious dis­eases, but now we need to learn from it

ericgilliam13 Jun 2022 20:43 UTC
6 points
8 comments11 min readPF link
(freaktakes.substack.com)

Ja­son’s links and tweets, 2022-12-20

jasoncrawford21 Dec 2022 0:35 UTC
6 points
0 comments3 min readPF link
(rootsofprogress.org)

How fear of the ‘Mega-Ma­chine’ helped end Amer­ica’s post­war Golden Age

James Pethokoukis20 Nov 2022 20:55 UTC
6 points
1 comment5 min readPF link
(fasterplease.substack.com)