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Tyler Cowen AMA

Tyler CowenJan 15, 2023, 7:48 PM

19 points

77 comments1 min readPF link

Radical Energy Abundance

Casey HandmerOct 10, 2023, 7:28 PM

19 points

15 comments12 min readPF link

A Catalog of Big Visions for Biology

Sam RodriquesFeb 1, 2023, 9:30 PM

19 points

10 comments4 min readPF link

(www.sam-rodriques.com)

Eli Dourado AMA

elidouradoJan 27, 2023, 5:51 PM

15 points

74 comments1 min readPF link

A Cure for My Cancer

Virginia PostrelFeb 3, 2023, 9:52 PM

14 points

1 comment5 min readPF link

(vpostrel.substack.com)

AMA: Allison Duettmann, Foresight Institute

AllisonDuettmannMar 17, 2023, 8:49 PM

13 points

17 comments1 min readPF link

Revving up the Progress Studies Idea Machine

PradyumnaJan 21, 2023, 1:39 AM

13 points

6 comments2 min readPF link

AMA: Matt Clancy, Open Philanthropy

mattclancyFeb 10, 2023, 5:24 PM

12 points

35 comments1 min readPF link

Starting the Journey as CEO of the Roots of Progress

Heike LarsonJan 31, 2023, 9:16 PM

12 points

5 comments4 min readPF link

(rootsofprogress.org)

AMA: Ben Reinhardt, Speculative Technologies

Benjamin ReinhardtFeb 18, 2023, 12:49 AM

11 points

26 comments1 min readPF link

The spiritual benefits of material progress

jasoncrawfordJan 19, 2023, 9:35 PM

11 points

5 comments7 min readPF link

(rootsofprogress.org)

Tell Good Stories

Rahul RanaFeb 15, 2023, 12:26 AM

11 points

4 comments15 min readPF link

(www.notboring.co)

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

jasoncrawfordApr 21, 2023, 5:42 PM

10 points

0 comments4 min readPF link

(rootsofprogress.org)

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

vincentweisserJan 18, 2023, 11:19 PM

10 points

0 comments1 min readPF link

The Rise of Steel—Part I

briancpotterFeb 6, 2023, 10:10 PM

9 points

0 comments16 min readPF link

(constructionphysics.substack.com)

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

Jeffrey MasonMay 18, 2023, 3:16 PM

9 points

6 comments8 min readPF link

What if they gave an Industrial Revolution and nobody came?

jasoncrawfordMay 17, 2023, 7:41 PM

9 points

7 comments18 min readPF link

(rootsofprogress.org)

Wizards and prophets of AI [draft for comment]

jasoncrawfordMar 31, 2023, 8:22 PM

9 points

6 comments6 min readPF link

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

jasoncrawfordSep 8, 2023, 5:48 PM

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 GörlitzJun 18, 2023, 1:33 PM

8 points

0 comments1 min readPF link

(www.freaktakes.com)

FAA’s safety philosophy and progress in personal aviation

elidouradoOct 23, 2023, 3:34 PM

8 points

1 comment1 min readPF link

Announcing The Roots of Progress Blog-Building Intensive

jasoncrawfordJul 11, 2023, 2:04 PM

8 points

0 comments1 min readPF link

(rootsofprogress.org)

The epistemic virtue of scope matching

jasoncrawfordMar 16, 2023, 10:08 PM

8 points

1 comment4 min readPF link

(rootsofprogress.org)

The Offense-Defense Balance Rarely Changes

Maxwell TabarrokDec 9, 2023, 3:22 PM

8 points

2 comments3 min readPF link

(maximumprogress.substack.com)

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

jasoncrawfordOct 18, 2023, 11:13 PM

8 points

6 comments1 min readPF link

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

Maxwell TabarrokOct 11, 2023, 5:16 PM

8 points

6 comments6 min readPF link

(maximumprogress.substack.com)

New database for economics research

Oshan JarowFeb 23, 2023, 3:57 PM

8 points

1 comment1 min readPF link

Age of Invention: How the Dutch Did it Better

Anton HowesFeb 24, 2023, 9:27 PM

8 points

2 comments9 min readPF link

(antonhowes.substack.com)

The Citizens Law Degree

Daniel GolliherAug 25, 2023, 5:16 PM

8 points

4 comments4 min readPF link

(www.maximumnewyork.com)

AMA: Bryan Bishop, Biohacker & Founder of Custodia Bank

kanzureApr 10, 2023, 6:18 PM

8 points

17 comments1 min readPF link

“In Praise of Fast Food” by Rachel Laudan

jasoncrawfordJan 4, 2023, 6:38 PM

7 points

0 comments1 min readPF link

(www.utne.com)

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

jasoncrawfordJun 15, 2023, 9:08 PM

7 points

0 comments3 min readPF link

(rootsofprogress.org)

Age of Invention: The Pull of Cities

Anton HowesJan 6, 2023, 10:32 PM

7 points

2 comments7 min readPF link

(antonhowes.substack.com)

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

2120ethJun 13, 2023, 2:34 PM

7 points

0 comments1 min readPF link

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

M KhuranaMar 24, 2023, 6:31 PM

7 points

16 comments1 min readPF link

The Comment Policy Is “Victorian Sufi Buddha Lite”

jasoncrawfordFeb 15, 2023, 2:37 PM

7 points

0 comments2 min readPF link

(slatestarcodex.com)

It’s Time for Greater San Francisco

ejzSep 8, 2023, 3:31 PM

7 points

4 comments15 min readPF link

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

jasoncrawfordMay 4, 2023, 10:11 PM

7 points

3 comments13 min readPF link

(rootsofprogress.org)

Jason’s links and tweets, 2023-01-25

jasoncrawfordJan 25, 2023, 4:00 PM

7 points

0 comments1 min readPF link

(rootsofprogress.org)

Do we get better or worse at adapting to change?

jasoncrawfordApr 6, 2023, 2:42 PM

7 points

4 comments3 min readPF link

(rootsofprogress.org)

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

jasoncrawfordFeb 22, 2023, 6:47 PM

7 points

0 comments13 min readPF link

(rootsofprogress.org)

Age of Invention: The Bourgeois Supremacy

Anton HowesJan 28, 2023, 12:18 AM

7 points

0 comments6 min readPF link

(antonhowes.substack.com)

A plea for solutionism on AI safety

jasoncrawfordJun 9, 2023, 4:29 PM

7 points

8 comments6 min readPF link

(rootsofprogress.org)

Introducing the Progress Studies Fellowship

Dominic SobhaniJul 4, 2023, 3:09 AM

6 points

1 comment1 min readPF link

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

jasoncrawfordJan 6, 2023, 9:29 PM

6 points

0 comments5 min readPF link

(rootsofprogress.org)

“Heretical Thoughts on AI” by Eli Dourado

𝕮𝖎𝖓𝖊𝖗𝖆Jan 19, 2023, 4:39 PM

6 points

2 comments5 min readPF link

(www.elidourado.com)

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

jasoncrawfordNov 22, 2023, 3:56 PM

6 points

15 comments3 min readPF link

(rootsofprogress.org)

The Art of Medical Progress

Tina Marsh DaltonOct 30, 2023, 5:59 PM

6 points

2 comments4 min readPF link

Four lenses on AI risks

jasoncrawfordMar 28, 2023, 9:52 PM

6 points

0 comments3 min readPF link

(rootsofprogress.org)

How to slow down scientific progress, according to Leo Szilard

jasoncrawfordJan 5, 2023, 6:26 PM

6 points

1 comment2 min readPF link

(rootsofprogress.org)