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AMA: Ja­son Crawford, The Roots of Progress

jasoncrawfordNov 21, 2022, 10:06 PM
10 points
40 comments1 min readPF link

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

James PethokoukisNov 20, 2022, 8:55 PM
6 points
1 comment5 min readPF link
(fasterplease.substack.com)

How Karl Comp­ton be­lieved a re­search de­part­ment should be run

ericgilliamNov 20, 2022, 8:10 PM
9 points
5 comments12 min readPF link
(freaktakes.substack.com)

Dist­in­guish­ing the im­pact and value of an idea

Mohan GanesalingamNov 20, 2022, 7:17 PM
3 points
2 comments2 min readPF link

Progress Meetup dur­ing At­lantic Progress Summit

James GrayNov 19, 2022, 7:41 PM
1 point
0 comments1 min readPF link

Lost In­no­va­tion: A His­tory of Missed Chances to Progress So­ciety.

Vito GNov 19, 2022, 3:48 PM
1 point
0 comments6 min readPF link

Com­par­ing pro­cess im­prove­ment in man­u­fac­tur­ing and con­struc­tion: Duco vs Drywall

briancpotterNov 19, 2022, 1:29 AM
7 points
0 comments7 min readPF link
(constructionphysics.substack.com)

Value Created vs. Value Extracted

SableNov 18, 2022, 9:40 PM
5 points
0 comments7 min readPF link
(affablyevil.substack.com)

“Why Does Darpa Work?”, an anal­y­sis of the unique struc­ture of DARPA

the gears of ascensionNov 18, 2022, 12:22 PM
1 point
0 comments1 min readPF link
(benjaminreinhardt.com)

Are Tech­nolo­gies Inevitable?

mattclancyNov 18, 2022, 3:00 AM
4 points
0 comments3 min readPF link
(www.newthingsunderthesun.com)

Dis­cussing Tech­nolog­i­cal Literacy

Anna-Sofia LesivNov 17, 2022, 8:46 PM
4 points
0 comments3 min readPF link
(annasofia.xyz)

How to sub­scribe to this Forum

jasoncrawfordNov 17, 2022, 6:54 PM
3 points
0 comments1 min readPF link

The mys­tery of the mir­a­cle year

Dwarkesh PatelNov 16, 2022, 10:11 PM
17 points
5 comments6 min readPF link
(www.dwarkeshpatel.com)

Wel­come to the Progress Fo­rum!

jasoncrawfordNov 16, 2022, 9:15 PM
13 points
4 comments1 min readPF link

When should we be sur­prised that an in­ven­tion took “so long”?

jasoncrawfordNov 16, 2022, 8:04 PM
6 points
0 comments4 min readPF link
(rootsofprogress.org)

Ja­son’s links and tweets, 2022-11-15

jasoncrawfordNov 16, 2022, 3:21 AM
4 points
0 comments2 min readPF link
(rootsofprogress.org)

Age of In­ven­tion: The Bea­cons are Lit!

Anton HowesNov 15, 2022, 7:08 PM
5 points
0 comments16 min readPF link
(antonhowes.substack.com)

What pub­lish­ing/​con­fer­ence norms do you think we should bring back?

ericgilliamNov 7, 2022, 7:36 PM
5 points
2 comments16 min readPF link
(freaktakes.substack.com)

Two pod­cast in­ter­views: Ar­jun Khe­mani, Alex LaBossiere

jasoncrawfordNov 4, 2022, 10:32 PM
3 points
0 comments1 min readPF link
(rootsofprogress.org)

Should we “go against na­ture”?

jasoncrawfordNov 4, 2022, 10:14 PM
3 points
0 comments2 min readPF link
(rootsofprogress.org)

Ja­son’s links and tweets, 2022-11-01

jasoncrawfordNov 1, 2022, 5:48 PM
3 points
0 comments3 min readPF link
(rootsofprogress.org)

In­tro­duc­ing my­self & com­plex­ity matters

Christophe RosseelNov 1, 2022, 2:06 PM
1 point
1 comment1 min readPF link
(complexitymatters.substack.com)

[Question] Which are the biggest prob­lems worth solv­ing in hu­man­ity right now?

Chris FedrizziOct 21, 2022, 12:03 AM
1 point
0 comments1 min readPF link

The Ascetic En­trepreneur: The triumph of Ger­man and In­dian chem­i­cal en­g­ineer­ing in the early 20th century

Niloy GuptaOct 20, 2022, 4:13 AM
1 point
0 comments14 min readPF link
(dreamsofprogress.substack.com)

Un­block­ing Abundance

Sarah ConstantinOct 12, 2022, 6:32 PM
14 points
4 comments6 min readPF link
(sarahconstantin.substack.com)

Ja­son’s links and tweets, 2022-10-12

jasoncrawfordOct 12, 2022, 4:59 PM
3 points
0 comments1 min readPF link
(rootsofprogress.org)

From tech­noc­racy to the counterculture

jasoncrawfordOct 11, 2022, 7:37 PM
3 points
0 comments25 min readPF link
(rootsofprogress.org)

Amer­i­can in­ven­tion from the “heroic age” to the sys­tem-build­ing era

jasoncrawfordOct 6, 2022, 5:19 PM
5 points
0 comments10 min readPF link
(rootsofprogress.org)

Ja­son’s links and tweets, 2022-10-05

jasoncrawfordOct 5, 2022, 7:24 PM
3 points
0 comments1 min readPF link
(rootsofprogress.org)

Fore­sight Vi­sion Week­end 2022

jasoncrawfordOct 5, 2022, 7:11 PM
3 points
0 comments1 min readPF link
(rootsofprogress.org)

[Question] How pro­duc­tive are our ed­u­ca­tion sys­tems? And how has our ed­u­ca­tion sys­tem scaled over the last hun­dred years?

Moritz WallawitschOct 1, 2022, 12:09 PM
3 points
1 comment1 min readPF link

Video: Fore­sight In­sti­tute meetup

jasoncrawfordSep 29, 2022, 4:37 PM
3 points
0 comments1 min readPF link
(rootsofprogress.org)

Ja­son’s links and tweets, 2022-09-28

jasoncrawfordSep 28, 2022, 8:26 PM
3 points
0 comments1 min readPF link
(rootsofprogress.org)

What hap­pened to the idea of progress?

jasoncrawfordSep 20, 2022, 7:56 PM
4 points
0 comments1 min readPF link
(bigthink.com)

Ja­son’s links and tweets, 2022-09-20

jasoncrawfordSep 20, 2022, 2:07 PM
3 points
0 comments1 min readPF link
(rootsofprogress.org)

[Question] How can we clas­sify nega­tive effects of new tech­nolo­gies?

Max OlsonSep 19, 2022, 10:12 PM
2 points
5 comments1 min readPF link

Towards a philos­o­phy of safety

jasoncrawfordSep 16, 2022, 9:10 PM
4 points
0 comments8 min readPF link
(rootsofprogress.org)

Ja­son’s links and tweets, 2022-09-14

jasoncrawfordSep 14, 2022, 11:21 PM
3 points
0 comments1 min readPF link
(rootsofprogress.org)

Ja­son’s links and tweets, 2022-09-08

jasoncrawfordSep 8, 2022, 8:42 PM
4 points
2 comments1 min readPF link
(rootsofprogress.org)

Pray­ing Palm and Pavlo­vian Plants: How ex­per­i­ments con­ducted 100 years apart are challeng­ing the way we look at in­tel­li­gence in plants

Niloy GuptaSep 5, 2022, 3:37 AM
1 point
0 comments8 min readPF link
(dreamsofprogress.substack.com)

Event: How progress can go main­stream? with the Tony Blair Institute

jasoncrawfordSep 1, 2022, 11:44 PM
3 points
0 comments1 min readPF link
(rootsofprogress.org)

Why was progress so slow in the past?

jasoncrawfordSep 1, 2022, 8:26 PM
5 points
3 comments6 min readPF link
(rootsofprogress.org)

In­ter­views: Jim Pethok­oukis, Pod of Jake, Montessorium

jasoncrawfordSep 1, 2022, 6:49 PM
3 points
0 comments1 min readPF link
(rootsofprogress.org)

Ja­son’s links and tweets, 2022-08-31

jasoncrawfordAug 31, 2022, 9:54 PM
3 points
0 comments1 min readPF link
(rootsofprogress.org)

New op-ed on au­tonomous vehicles

Jordan McGillisAug 29, 2022, 7:10 PM
2 points
0 comments4 min readPF link

State-ad­ja­cent Institutions

Jamie RumbelowAug 27, 2022, 2:49 PM
1 point
0 comments2 min readPF link

How to Slow Down Progress (Ac­cord­ing to Fic­tion)

etiennefdAug 26, 2022, 2:19 PM
2 points
0 comments7 min readPF link
(etiennefd.substack.com)

Event in SF: Fore­sight In­sti­tute meetup, Sep 8

jasoncrawfordAug 25, 2022, 8:52 PM
3 points
0 comments1 min readPF link
(rootsofprogress.org)

Ja­son’s links and tweets, 2022-08-23

jasoncrawfordAug 23, 2022, 5:29 PM
3 points
0 comments1 min readPF link
(rootsofprogress.org)

Draft for com­ment: Towards a philos­o­phy of safety

jasoncrawfordAug 18, 2022, 11:41 PM
6 points
12 comments5 min readPF link