An­nounc­ing The Techno-Hu­man­ist Man­i­festo: A new philos­o­phy of progress for the 21st century

jasoncrawford8 Jul 2024 16:33 UTC
10 points
5 comments5 min readPF link
(blog.rootsofprogress.org)

Why you, per­son­ally, should want a larger hu­man population

jasoncrawford23 Feb 2024 19:48 UTC
8 points
2 comments5 min readPF link
(rootsofprogress.org)

Cel­lu­lar re­pro­gram­ming, pneu­matic launch sys­tems, and ter­raform­ing Mars: Some things I learned about at Fore­sight Vi­sion Weekend

jasoncrawford4 Jan 2024 19:33 UTC
7 points
1 comment8 min readPF link
(rootsofprogress.org)

Safe Sta­sis Fallacy

David Manheim5 Feb 2024 11:09 UTC
7 points
1 comment1 min readPF link

Re­port on the De­sir­a­bil­ity of Science Given Risks from New Biotech

mattclancy17 Jan 2024 19:50 UTC
6 points
1 comment4 min readPF link
(forum.effectivealtruism.org)

The Ori­gins of the Lab Mouse

Niko2 Jun 2024 16:34 UTC
6 points
0 comments20 min readPF link

Notes on Differ­en­tial Tech­nolog­i­cal Development

Chris Leong14 Jan 2024 16:09 UTC
6 points
1 comment1 min readPF link
(michaelnotebook.com)

The Roots of Progress is now the Roots of Progress In­sti­tute (RPI)

jasoncrawford25 Jun 2024 14:15 UTC
6 points
0 comments1 min readPF link
(rootsofprogress.org)

What if gov­ern­ment worked like Wikipe­dia?

Elle Griffin20 Mar 2024 19:05 UTC
6 points
2 comments5 min readPF link
(www.elysian.press)

Bring­ing el­e­ments of progress stud­ies into short-form per­sua­sive writing

danrecht30 Mar 2024 13:37 UTC
6 points
0 comments4 min readPF link
(www.activate.org)

What is progress?

jasoncrawford9 Mar 2024 16:28 UTC
6 points
0 comments6 min readPF link
(rootsofprogress.org)

Big tech tran­si­tions are slow (with im­pli­ca­tions for AI)

jasoncrawford24 Oct 2024 14:25 UTC
6 points
0 comments3 min readPF link
(blog.rootsofprogress.org)

Event, Feb 29: “Towards a New Philos­o­phy of Progress” in Bos­ton and on Zoom

jasoncrawford21 Feb 2024 19:52 UTC
6 points
0 comments1 min readPF link
(rootsofprogress.org)

Progress Con­fer­ence 2024: Toward Abun­dant Futures

jasoncrawford26 Jun 2024 15:27 UTC
6 points
1 comment1 min readPF link
(rootsofprogress.org)

A re­view of See­ing Like a State in six tweets

jasoncrawford5 Sep 2024 18:51 UTC
5 points
0 comments1 min readPF link
(blog.rootsofprogress.org)

How to choose what to work on

jasoncrawford18 Sep 2024 20:39 UTC
5 points
0 comments3 min readPF link
(blog.rootsofprogress.org)

The Cos­mos In­sti­tute launches

jasoncrawford4 Sep 2024 19:36 UTC
5 points
0 comments1 min readPF link

An­nounc­ing the 2024 Roots of Progress Blog-Build­ing Intensive

jasoncrawford30 Apr 2024 17:37 UTC
5 points
0 comments2 min readPF link
(rootsofprogress.org)

One week left to ap­ply for the Roots of Progress Blog-Build­ing Intensive

jasoncrawford30 May 2024 16:54 UTC
5 points
0 comments3 min readPF link
(rootsofprogress.org)

Some re­cent grants, con­tests, events, job open­ings, etc.

jasoncrawford19 Sep 2024 13:23 UTC
5 points
0 comments1 min readPF link
(blog.rootsofprogress.org)

Speak­ing: Fore­sight, In­sti­tuto Mille­nium, CS Monitor

jasoncrawford26 Jan 2024 17:49 UTC
4 points
0 comments1 min readPF link

Please come up with wildly spec­u­la­tive futures

Elle Griffin1 Apr 2024 18:42 UTC
4 points
0 comments6 min readPF link
(www.elysian.press)

“Friends” as the ideal community

Elle Griffin27 May 2024 8:34 UTC
4 points
0 comments11 min readPF link
(www.elysian.press)

Fea­ture on the progress move­ment in Rea­son Magazine

jasoncrawford15 Apr 2024 17:54 UTC
4 points
0 comments1 min readPF link
(reason.com)

Test-time com­pute scal­ing for OpenAI o1 is a huge deal

Matt Ritter12 Sep 2024 20:01 UTC
4 points
0 comments1 min readPF link

Mak­ing ev­ery re­searcher seek grants is a bro­ken model

jasoncrawford26 Jan 2024 16:06 UTC
4 points
3 comments4 min readPF link
(rootsofprogress.org)

Com­ment on a U.S. Nu­clear Reg­u­la­tory Com­mis­sion scop­ing pro­cess for a nu­clear plant in Wy­oming.

NunoSempere19 Jun 2024 18:55 UTC
4 points
0 comments1 min readPF link

Day Zero An­tivirals for Fu­ture Pandemics

Niko26 Aug 2024 15:20 UTC
4 points
0 comments10 min readPF link
(www.asimov.press)

Nurs­ing doubts: Is breast­feed­ing good?

dynomight29 Aug 2024 18:02 UTC
4 points
2 comments9 min readPF link
(dynomight.net)

Surgery Works Well Without The FDA

Maxwell Tabarrok26 Jan 2024 13:33 UTC
3 points
2 comments4 min readPF link
(maximumprogress.substack.com)

Amer­i­can Ac­cel­er­a­tion vs Development

Maxwell Tabarrok22 Mar 2024 13:05 UTC
3 points
0 comments4 min readPF link
(www.maximum-progress.com)

There’s room for more people

Sam Harsimony8 Apr 2024 20:37 UTC
3 points
2 comments2 min readPF link
(splittinginfinity.substack.com)

Blog: What is in­dus­trial policy for, any­way?

Connor O'Brien16 Jan 2024 18:16 UTC
3 points
0 comments7 min readPF link
(www.cojobrien.com)

The in­creas­ing im­por­tance of co­or­di­na­tion

MarkLutter4 Feb 2024 19:27 UTC
3 points
0 comments13 min readPF link
(www.marklutter.com)

Reflec­tions on the Land League

Robert Tolan26 Apr 2024 20:10 UTC
3 points
0 comments11 min readPF link

Health In­surance in Chil­dren’s Lit!? A study of Black Beauty

Tina Marsh Dalton9 Jan 2024 20:24 UTC
3 points
0 comments2 min readPF link
(tinamarshdalton.substack.com)

The City That Can’t?

Ryan Puzycki18 Feb 2024 16:12 UTC
3 points
0 comments6 min readPF link
(www.ryanpuzycki.com)

Let’s De­sign A School, Part 1

Sable2 May 2024 22:06 UTC
3 points
1 comment11 min readPF link
(affablyevil.substack.com)

What if NATO be­came a world gov­ern­ment?

Elle Griffin13 Mar 2024 18:34 UTC
3 points
0 comments3 min readPF link
(www.elysian.press)

Who’s qual­ified to save the world?

Elle Griffin27 Jun 2024 18:13 UTC
3 points
0 comments7 min readPF link
(www.elysian.press)

Let’s De­sign A School, Part 2.1 School as Ed­u­ca­tion—Structure

Sable7 May 2024 19:14 UTC
3 points
1 comment10 min readPF link
(affablyevil.substack.com)

To Be Born in a Bag

Niko6 Oct 2024 17:11 UTC
3 points
0 comments16 min readPF link

GDP per cap­ita in 2050

Hauke Hillebrandt7 May 2024 19:22 UTC
3 points
0 comments28 min readPF link

Lev­ers for Biolog­i­cal Progress

Niko1 Nov 2024 16:09 UTC
3 points
0 comments20 min readPF link

Land Recla­ma­tion is in the 9th Cir­cle of Stag­na­tion Hell

Maxwell Tabarrok12 Jan 2024 13:38 UTC
3 points
0 comments2 min readPF link
(maximumprogress.substack.com)

The real data wall is billions of years of evolution

dynomight3 Oct 2024 15:40 UTC
3 points
1 comment1 min readPF link
(dynomight.net)

How I Learned to Stop Wor­ry­ing and Love Diet Coke

Julius27 Sep 2024 21:06 UTC
3 points
0 comments8 min readPF link

Or­well Was Right About Progress

Andrew Miller24 Sep 2024 14:29 UTC
3 points
0 comments7 min readPF link
(changinglanesnewsletter.substack.com)

Tesla Isn’t Go­ing to Suc­ceed in Robotaxis

Andrew Miller3 Sep 2024 20:03 UTC
3 points
0 comments8 min readPF link

We Need Ma­jor, But Not Rad­i­cal, FDA Reform

Maxwell Tabarrok24 Feb 2024 16:56 UTC
3 points
0 comments7 min readPF link
(www.maximum-progress.com)