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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)

Tyler Cowen AMA

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

Rad­i­cal En­ergy Abundance

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

Eli Dourado AMA

elidourado27 Jan 2023 17:51 UTC
15 points
74 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)

AMA: Alli­son Duettmann, Fore­sight Institute

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

Revving up the Progress Stud­ies Idea Machine

Pradyumna21 Jan 2023 1:39 UTC
13 points
6 comments2 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)

AMA: Ben Rein­hardt, Spec­u­la­tive Technologies

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

The spiritual benefits of ma­te­rial progress

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

Tell Good Stories

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

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 Rise of Steel—Part I

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

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

Ja­son’s links di­gest, 2023-09-08: The Con­ser­va­tive Fu­tur­ist, cargo air­ships, and more

jasoncrawford8 Sep 2023 17:48 UTC
8 points
0 comments5 min readPF link
(rootsofprogress.org)

A Re­port on Scien­tific Branch-Creation: How the Rock­efel­ler Foun­da­tion helped boot­strap the field of molec­u­lar biology

Max Görlitz18 Jun 2023 13:33 UTC
8 points
0 comments1 min readPF link
(www.freaktakes.com)

FAA’s safety philos­o­phy and progress in per­sonal aviation

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

An­nounc­ing The Roots of Progress Blog-Build­ing Intensive

jasoncrawford11 Jul 2023 14:04 UTC
8 points
0 comments1 min readPF link
(rootsofprogress.org)

The Next Ein­stein Could Be From Any­where: Why Devel­op­ing Coun­try Growth Mat­ters for Progress

Jeffrey Mason18 May 2023 15:16 UTC
8 points
6 comments8 min readPF link

The epistemic virtue of scope matching

jasoncrawford16 Mar 2023 22:08 UTC
8 points
1 comment4 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

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)

New database for eco­nomics research

Oshan Jarow23 Feb 2023 15:57 UTC
8 points
1 comment1 min readPF link

Age of In­ven­tion: How the Dutch Did it Better

Anton Howes24 Feb 2023 21:27 UTC
8 points
2 comments9 min readPF link
(antonhowes.substack.com)

The Ci­ti­zens Law Degree

Daniel Golliher25 Aug 2023 17:16 UTC
8 points
4 comments4 min readPF link
(www.maximumnewyork.com)

AMA: Bryan Bishop, Bio­hacker & Founder of Cus­to­dia Bank

kanzure10 Apr 2023 18:18 UTC
8 points
17 comments1 min readPF link

“In Praise of Fast Food” by Rachel Laudan

jasoncrawford4 Jan 2023 18:38 UTC
7 points
0 comments1 min readPF link
(www.utne.com)

Devel­op­ing a tech­nol­ogy with safety in mind: Les­sons from the Wright Brothers

jasoncrawford15 Jun 2023 21:08 UTC
7 points
0 comments3 min readPF link
(rootsofprogress.org)

Age of In­ven­tion: The Pull of Cities

Anton Howes6 Jan 2023 22:32 UTC
7 points
2 comments7 min readPF link
(antonhowes.substack.com)

[Question] Best data sources for track­ing oc­cu­pa­tional change in real time?

2120eth13 Jun 2023 14:34 UTC
7 points
0 comments1 min readPF link

AMA: Mark Khu­rana, au­thor of The Tra­jec­tory of Dis­cov­ery, cre­ator of Un­told Health

M Khurana24 Mar 2023 18:31 UTC
7 points
16 comments1 min readPF link

The Com­ment Policy Is “Vic­to­rian Sufi Bud­dha Lite”

jasoncrawford15 Feb 2023 14:37 UTC
7 points
0 comments2 min readPF link
(slatestarcodex.com)

It’s Time for Greater San Francisco

ejz8 Sep 2023 15:31 UTC
7 points
4 comments15 min readPF link

Who reg­u­lates the reg­u­la­tors? We need to go be­yond the re­view-and-ap­proval paradigm

jasoncrawford4 May 2023 22:11 UTC
7 points
3 comments13 min readPF link
(rootsofprogress.org)

Ja­son’s links and tweets, 2023-01-25

jasoncrawford25 Jan 2023 16:00 UTC
7 points
0 comments1 min readPF link
(rootsofprogress.org)

Do we get bet­ter or worse at adapt­ing to change?

jasoncrawford6 Apr 2023 14:42 UTC
7 points
4 comments3 min readPF link
(rootsofprogress.org)

Can sub­marines swim? (In which I de­mys­tify ar­tifi­cial in­tel­li­gence)

jasoncrawford22 Feb 2023 18:47 UTC
7 points
0 comments13 min readPF link
(rootsofprogress.org)

Age of In­ven­tion: The Bour­geois Supremacy

Anton Howes28 Jan 2023 0:18 UTC
7 points
0 comments6 min readPF link
(antonhowes.substack.com)

A plea for solu­tion­ism on AI safety

jasoncrawford9 Jun 2023 16:29 UTC
7 points
8 comments6 min readPF link
(rootsofprogress.org)

In­tro­duc­ing the Progress Stud­ies Fellowship

Dominic Sobhani4 Jul 2023 3:09 UTC
6 points
1 comment1 min readPF link

Why didn’t we get the four-hour work­day?

jasoncrawford6 Jan 2023 21:29 UTC
6 points
0 comments5 min readPF link
(rootsofprogress.org)

“Hereti­cal Thoughts on AI” by Eli Dourado

𝕮𝖎𝖓𝖊𝖗𝖆19 Jan 2023 16:39 UTC
6 points
2 comments5 min readPF link
(www.elidourado.com)

Nei­ther EA nor e/​acc is what we need to build the future

jasoncrawford22 Nov 2023 15:56 UTC
6 points
15 comments3 min readPF link
(rootsofprogress.org)

The Art of Med­i­cal Progress

Tina Marsh Dalton30 Oct 2023 17:59 UTC
6 points
2 comments4 min readPF link

Four lenses on AI risks

jasoncrawford28 Mar 2023 21:52 UTC
6 points
0 comments3 min readPF link
(rootsofprogress.org)

How to slow down sci­en­tific progress, ac­cord­ing to Leo Szilard

jasoncrawford5 Jan 2023 18:26 UTC
6 points
1 comment2 min readPF link
(rootsofprogress.org)