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Enlightenment Values in a Vulnerable World
Maxwell Tabarrok
Jul 18, 2022, 12:00 PM
4
points
0
comments
31
min read
PF
link
(maximumprogress.substack.com)
Highlights from the memoirs of Vannevar Bush
jasoncrawford
Jul 15, 2022, 6:08 PM
4
points
0
comments
13
min read
PF
link
(rootsofprogress.org)
Jason’s links and tweets, 2022-07-12
jasoncrawford
Jul 12, 2022, 3:30 PM
4
points
0
comments
1
min read
PF
link
(rootsofprogress.org)
Request for posts: Social change
jasoncrawford
Jul 11, 2022, 6:44 PM
6
points
1
comment
1
min read
PF
link
Progress and Disabilities
Taylor Barkley
Jul 7, 2022, 10:41 PM
7
points
2
comments
7
min read
PF
link
Imperial Russia was doing fine without the Soviets
daviskedrosky
Jul 5, 2022, 10:25 PM
4
points
0
comments
14
min read
PF
link
(daviskedrosky.substack.com)
Future Forum, a conference to improve the future of humanity
jasoncrawford
Jul 1, 2022, 7:57 PM
6
points
0
comments
1
min read
PF
link
(rootsofprogress.org)
The Industrial Revolution That Almost Was: Proto-Industrialization in Bengal
etiennefd
Jul 1, 2022, 1:00 AM
5
points
0
comments
20
min read
PF
link
(etiennefd.substack.com)
Jason’s links and tweets, 2022-06-29
jasoncrawford
Jun 29, 2022, 9:33 PM
4
points
0
comments
1
min read
PF
link
(rootsofprogress.org)
What would you all change the h-index to? I’m very curious!
ericgilliam
Jun 29, 2022, 6:18 PM
4
points
1
comment
1
min read
PF
link
Why is health spending low in India?
Nihal Sahu
Jun 28, 2022, 8:49 PM
2
points
0
comments
6
min read
PF
link
Increasing Demand for Progress Beyond Desire
Daniel Frank
Jun 25, 2022, 2:27 PM
4
points
3
comments
3
min read
PF
link
The Trouble With Guilds
daviskedrosky
Jun 24, 2022, 2:48 PM
4
points
0
comments
22
min read
PF
link
(daviskedrosky.substack.com)
Jason’s links and tweets, 2022-06-20
jasoncrawford
Jun 21, 2022, 5:10 PM
3
points
0
comments
1
min read
PF
link
(rootsofprogress.org)
The Last Crusade: Fighting for the Holy Land of Industrialism
daviskedrosky
Jun 19, 2022, 3:27 PM
5
points
2
comments
8
min read
PF
link
Many university patents are anchors on progress
sahajsharda
Jun 19, 2022, 1:18 AM
1
point
1
comment
1
min read
PF
link
(sahajsharda.substack.com)
Erik Brynjolfsson on automation, productivity, work, and the future
jasoncrawford
Jun 17, 2022, 8:46 PM
4
points
0
comments
1
min read
PF
link
(rootsofprogress.org)
To Increase Progress, Increase Desire
Max Olson
Jun 17, 2022, 6:22 PM
3
points
14
comments
4
min read
PF
link
BBC Future covers progress studies (my response)
jasoncrawford
Jun 16, 2022, 10:44 PM
6
points
1
comment
3
min read
PF
link
(rootsofprogress.org)
I wrote a 4k word BBC Future article on Progress Studies, and I’d love your thoughts
garrison
Jun 16, 2022, 5:14 PM
5
points
2
comments
1
min read
PF
link
State capacity eats interest rates for lunch
elidourado
Jun 16, 2022, 12:53 AM
7
points
3
comments
1
min read
PF
link
(www.thecgo.org)
Jason’s links and tweets, 2022-06-13
jasoncrawford
Jun 15, 2022, 7:46 PM
3
points
0
comments
1
min read
PF
link
(rootsofprogress.org)
Why Wasn’t the Steam Engine Invented Earlier? Part I
Anton Howes
Jun 14, 2022, 5:44 PM
7
points
4
comments
11
min read
PF
link
(antonhowes.substack.com)
We won the war on infectious diseases, but now we need to learn from it
ericgilliam
Jun 13, 2022, 8:43 PM
6
points
8
comments
11
min read
PF
link
(freaktakes.substack.com)
Humanity Lacks Imagination to Solve Aging
tomaspueyo
Jun 13, 2022, 8:26 PM
6
points
2
comments
1
min read
PF
link
We Are Not Gods: The Geographic Critique of Impartial Progress
SebastianG
Jun 13, 2022, 5:58 PM
4
points
2
comments
3
min read
PF
link
Book Review: How the World Became Rich
daviskedrosky
Jun 10, 2022, 6:21 PM
4
points
1
comment
10
min read
PF
link
(daviskedrosky.substack.com)
Jason’s links and tweets, 2022-06-08
jasoncrawford
Jun 9, 2022, 7:13 PM
4
points
2
comments
1
min read
PF
link
(rootsofprogress.org)
PASTA and Progress: The great irony
Nick
Jun 7, 2022, 4:33 PM
5
points
14
comments
2
min read
PF
link
Hendrick Bode?
jasoncrawford
Jun 6, 2022, 8:26 PM
3
points
1
comment
1
min read
PF
link
We Should Break Up Elite Colleges
sahajsharda
Jun 6, 2022, 6:53 PM
2
points
2
comments
1
min read
PF
link
(sahajsharda.substack.com)
[Question]
Were hunter-gatherers not able to produce enough calories until age 18?
Moritz Wallawitsch
Jun 6, 2022, 3:37 PM
2
points
2
comments
1
min read
PF
link
Could AI help marshal regulatory refinement and drive progress?
mattaurilio
Jun 5, 2022, 9:16 PM
2
points
0
comments
6
min read
PF
link
Reinventing the wheel
jasoncrawford
Jun 4, 2022, 10:39 PM
8
points
0
comments
2
min read
PF
link
(rootsofprogress.org)
A Visit to the Idea Machine Fair
etiennefd
Jun 3, 2022, 8:20 PM
5
points
3
comments
11
min read
PF
link
(etiennefd.substack.com)
Content and Method of Classical Tutoring
SebastianG
Jun 3, 2022, 7:59 PM
2
points
2
comments
2
min read
PF
link
(sebastiangarren.com)
The Book of T: An Exegesis of The Greatest Paper in Economic History
daviskedrosky
Jun 3, 2022, 7:44 PM
8
points
1
comment
8
min read
PF
link
(daviskedrosky.substack.com)
Science is getting harder
mattclancy
Jun 1, 2022, 3:15 AM
14
points
4
comments
15
min read
PF
link
(www.newthingsunderthesun.com)
Jason’s links and tweets, 2022-05-30
jasoncrawford
May 30, 2022, 11:18 PM
5
points
0
comments
1
min read
PF
link
(rootsofprogress.org)
NIMBYs are destroying the future we deserve
GregCostigan
May 30, 2022, 4:04 PM
2
points
1
comment
1
min read
PF
link
(medium.com)
Can growth continue?
jasoncrawford
May 27, 2022, 4:14 PM
7
points
2
comments
3
min read
PF
link
(rootsofprogress.org)
What’s the Right Policy Default for AI?
AdamThierer
May 27, 2022, 2:34 PM
4
points
1
comment
1
min read
PF
link
The Democracy of the Future
tomaspueyo
May 27, 2022, 12:53 AM
4
points
3
comments
15
min read
PF
link
One Process
ganeumann
May 23, 2022, 1:14 AM
11
points
2
comments
11
min read
PF
link
(reactionwheel.net)
Is Innovation in Human Nature?
Anton Howes
May 23, 2022, 1:11 AM
14
points
7
comments
3
min read
PF
link
(www.antonhowes.com)
This Can’t Go On
BrownHairedEevee
May 23, 2022, 1:09 AM
4
points
0
comments
1
min read
PF
link
(www.cold-takes.com)
How curing aging could help progress
jasoncrawford
May 22, 2022, 10:43 PM
7
points
7
comments
1
min read
PF
link
(rootsofprogress.org)
How this forum can build up a canon of progress thinking over the long term
jasoncrawford
May 21, 2022, 7:40 PM
7
points
0
comments
1
min read
PF
link
Death is the default: Why building is our safest way forward
Gena Gorlin
May 21, 2022, 7:11 PM
4
points
1
comment
8
min read
PF
link
(genagorlin.substack.com)
About the ‘Progress’ in Progress Studies
José Luis Ricón
May 20, 2022, 11:00 PM
4
points
1
comment
6
min read
PF
link
(nintil.com)
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