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Progress Con­fer­ence re­flec­tions and 2025 plans (we’re hiring!)

jasoncrawford25 Nov 2024 18:25 UTC
6 points
0 comments1 min readPF link
(newsletter.rootsofprogress.org)

Links and short notes, 2024-11-21: CP Snow on in­dus­trial liter­acy, cost-minus con­tract­ing, and more

jasoncrawford21 Nov 2024 18:56 UTC
5 points
0 comments1 min readPF link
(newsletter.rootsofprogress.org)

Grid defec­tion is com­ing to California

smflem12 Nov 2024 21:17 UTC
2 points
0 comments12 min readPF link

Lev­ers for Biolog­i­cal Progress

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

The Case for En­ergy Dynamism

smflem31 Oct 2024 16:19 UTC
2 points
0 comments6 min readPF link

Join Path­ways to Progress’s Book Dis­cus­sion in November

lmessner26 Oct 2024 18:01 UTC
1 point
0 comments1 min readPF link

If There Is Only One Sce­nario Where Hu­man Agency Still Mat­ters, We Should Act On the Premise That It Exists

Karl Faulks24 Oct 2024 20:43 UTC
1 point
0 comments2 min readPF link

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)

The Price of Progress

Max Olson15 Oct 2024 16:44 UTC
2 points
1 comment3 min readPF link
(futureblind.com)

Read­ing glasses might be one of the best buys in global health.

Lauren Gilbert15 Oct 2024 15:37 UTC
1 point
0 comments1 min readPF link
(laurenpolicy.substack.com)

The AI Re­spon­si­bil­ity Dilemma

Julius11 Oct 2024 21:21 UTC
1 point
0 comments5 min readPF link

The Uber-iza­tion of Electricity

smflem10 Oct 2024 18:01 UTC
2 points
0 comments8 min readPF link

To Be Born in a Bag

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

The grid is built for one thing

smflem3 Oct 2024 17:42 UTC
2 points
0 comments6 min readPF link

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)

Air Con­di­tion­ing Is A Sur­vival Technology

Lauren Gilbert2 Oct 2024 16:37 UTC
2 points
0 comments1 min readPF link
(laurenpolicy.substack.com)

Join Path­ways to Progress’s Book Dis­cus­sion in October

lmessner29 Sep 2024 12:54 UTC
1 point
0 comments1 min readPF link

How I Learned to Stop Wor­ry­ing and Love Diet Coke

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

Car­bon cap­ture is an en­ergy problem

smflem26 Sep 2024 15:29 UTC
2 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)

Mak­ing Eggs Without Ovaries

Niko22 Sep 2024 17:48 UTC
2 points
0 comments16 min readPF link

Why good things of­ten don’t lead to bet­ter outcomes

Daniel Frank19 Sep 2024 14:41 UTC
1 point
0 comments4 min readPF link
(danfrank.ca)

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

jasoncrawford19 Sep 2024 13:23 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)

Tech­nol­ogy is not stag­nat­ing, but sci­ence is

Jonah Messinger17 Sep 2024 20:54 UTC
1 point
0 comments1 min readPF link
(seekingscientificrevolutions.substack.com)

Europe Should Re­quire Foods Be For­tified With Folate

Lauren Gilbert17 Sep 2024 12:24 UTC
2 points
0 comments1 min readPF link
(laurenpolicy.substack.com)

When Do We Cel­e­brate?

Julius14 Sep 2024 7:19 UTC
2 points
0 comments11 min readPF link

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

The Promise of Hot Bricks

smflem12 Sep 2024 18:41 UTC
2 points
0 comments8 min readPF link

Coal min­ing’s im­proved safety in the past 80 years

Ilverin12 Sep 2024 15:49 UTC
1 point
0 comments1 min readPF link
(www.washingtonpost.com)

Con­scious­ness will slip through our fingers

dynomight12 Sep 2024 15:21 UTC
2 points
0 comments8 min readPF link
(dynomight.net)

For­ever Build­ing Tunnels

Robert Tolan8 Sep 2024 4:12 UTC
2 points
0 comments6 min readPF link

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)

The Cos­mos In­sti­tute launches

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

Join Path­ways to Progress’s Book Dis­cus­sion in September

lmessner4 Sep 2024 17:52 UTC
2 points
0 comments1 min readPF link

The Case for Pos­i­tive-Sum Environmentalism

grantmulligan4 Sep 2024 13:53 UTC
2 points
1 comment3 min readPF link

Tesla Isn’t Go­ing to Suc­ceed in Robotaxis

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

AI Policy Should Pri­ori­tize Visi­bil­ity Into Trajectories

Steve Newman1 Sep 2024 14:17 UTC
2 points
0 comments5 min readPF link

Les­sons from San Fran­cisco’s Doom Loop

Jeff Fong1 Sep 2024 14:17 UTC
2 points
0 comments4 min readPF link
(www.urbanproxima.com)

Why Brain Drain Isn’t Some­thing We Should Worry About

Lauren Gilbert1 Sep 2024 14:17 UTC
2 points
0 comments1 min readPF link
(laurenpolicy.substack.com)

Anti-AI Bias: Un­rea­son­ably Great Expectations

Julius30 Aug 2024 17:49 UTC
2 points
0 comments4 min readPF link

Ac­cel­er­ate the en­ergy tran­si­tion by do­ing less

smflem30 Aug 2024 14:01 UTC
2 points
0 comments5 min readPF link

Nurs­ing doubts: Is breast­feed­ing good?

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

Day Zero An­tivirals for Fu­ture Pandemics

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

Dude, where is my self-driv­ing train?

Kevin Kohler26 Aug 2024 11:02 UTC
2 points
4 comments5 min readPF link
(machinocene.substack.com)

Quick look: ap­pli­ca­tions of chaos theory

Elizabeth20 Aug 2024 17:53 UTC
2 points
3 comments8 min readPF link
(acesounderglass.com)

Will we ever run out of new jobs?

Kevin Kohler19 Aug 2024 15:09 UTC
2 points
2 comments8 min readPF link
(machinocene.substack.com)

[Question] Does progress stud­ies have any­thing rele­vant to say to the study of med­i­ta­tion/​Bud­dhism?

Chris Leong14 Aug 2024 10:35 UTC
2 points
0 comments1 min readPF link

Linkpost: The EA-Progress Stud­ies War is Here, and It’s a Con­struc­tive Dialogue!

Chris Leong14 Aug 2024 10:29 UTC
2 points
0 comments1 min readPF link
(asteriskmag.com)

Linkpost: Devel­op­ment in Progress, The Con­silience Project

Chris Leong14 Aug 2024 10:28 UTC
2 points
0 comments1 min readPF link
(consilienceproject.org)