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The Roots of Progress 2024 in review

jasoncrawfordJan 1, 2025, 12:01 AM
6 points
0 comments11 min readPF link
(newsletter.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)

Links and short notes, 2024-12-27: Clini­cal trial abun­dance, grid-scale fu­sion, per­mit­ting vs. com­pli­ance, cross­word ma­nia, and more

jasoncrawfordDec 27, 2024, 11:34 PM
6 points
0 comments2 min readPF link
(newsletter.rootsofprogress.org)

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)

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

jasoncrawfordNov 25, 2024, 6:25 PM
6 points
0 comments1 min readPF link
(newsletter.rootsofprogress.org)

Big tech tran­si­tions are slow (with im­pli­ca­tions for AI)

jasoncrawfordOct 24, 2024, 2:25 PM
6 points
0 comments3 min readPF link
(blog.rootsofprogress.org)

A progress policy agenda

jasoncrawfordDec 19, 2024, 6:40 PM
6 points
0 comments5 min readPF link
(newsletter.rootsofprogress.org)

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)

Reflec­tions from see­ing the Star­ship launch firsthand

mattbellApr 24, 2023, 4:57 PM
6 points
0 comments3 min readPF link
(www.mattbell.us)

Hu­man­ity Lacks Imag­i­na­tion to Solve Aging

tomaspueyoJun 13, 2022, 8:26 PM
6 points
2 comments1 min readPF link

We won the war on in­fec­tious dis­eases, but now we need to learn from it

ericgilliamJun 13, 2022, 8:43 PM
6 points
8 comments11 min readPF link
(freaktakes.substack.com)

Progress Con­fer­ence 2024: Toward Abun­dant Futures

jasoncrawfordJun 26, 2024, 3:27 PM
6 points
1 comment1 min readPF link
(rootsofprogress.org)

New In­dus­tries Come From Crazy People

benlandautaylorMay 4, 2022, 7:05 PM
6 points
2 comments8 min readPF link
(palladiummag.com)

Wait, En­vi­ron­men­tal­ists Are Anti-Tech­nol­ogy?

Alex TrembathMay 11, 2022, 9:30 PM
6 points
2 comments4 min readPF link

What is progress?

jasoncrawfordMar 9, 2024, 4:28 PM
6 points
0 comments6 min readPF link
(rootsofprogress.org)

Why doesn’t progress seem to prop­a­gate?

ejzMay 11, 2022, 10:53 PM
6 points
5 comments2 min readPF link

What if gov­ern­ment worked like Wikipe­dia?

Elle GriffinMar 20, 2024, 7:05 PM
6 points
2 comments5 min readPF link
(www.elysian.press)

BBC Fu­ture cov­ers progress stud­ies (my re­sponse)

jasoncrawfordJun 16, 2022, 10:44 PM
6 points
1 comment3 min readPF link
(rootsofprogress.org)

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

jasoncrawfordJan 6, 2023, 9:29 PM
6 points
0 comments5 min readPF link
(rootsofprogress.org)

Draft for com­ment: Ideas get­ting harder to find does not im­ply stagnation

jasoncrawfordMay 12, 2022, 5:01 PM
6 points
18 comments22 min readPF link

Bring­ing el­e­ments of progress stud­ies into short-form per­sua­sive writing

danrechtMar 30, 2024, 1:37 PM
6 points
0 comments4 min readPF link
(www.activate.org)

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

jasoncrawfordFeb 21, 2024, 7:52 PM
6 points
0 comments1 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)

Re­port on the De­sir­a­bil­ity of Science Given Risks from New Biotech

mattclancyJan 17, 2024, 7:50 PM
6 points
1 comment4 min readPF link
(forum.effectivealtruism.org)

Why con­sumerism is good actually

jasoncrawfordMar 24, 2023, 5:42 PM
6 points
5 comments1 min readPF link
(rootsofprogress.org)

The Ori­gins of the Lab Mouse

NikoJun 2, 2024, 4:34 PM
6 points
0 comments20 min readPF link

Four lenses on AI risks

jasoncrawfordMar 28, 2023, 9:52 PM
6 points
0 comments3 min readPF link
(rootsofprogress.org)

Fu­ture Fo­rum, a con­fer­ence to im­prove the fu­ture of humanity

jasoncrawfordJul 1, 2022, 7:57 PM
6 points
0 comments1 min readPF link
(rootsofprogress.org)

Re­quest for posts: So­cial change

jasoncrawfordJul 11, 2022, 6:44 PM
6 points
1 comment1 min readPF link

The Progress of Brain Com­puter Interfaces

Lev VMar 2, 2023, 7:15 PM
6 points
3 comments9 min readPF link

The Roots of Progress 2023 in review

jasoncrawfordDec 31, 2023, 6:16 PM
6 points
0 comments11 min readPF link
(rootsofprogress.org)

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)

Ja­son’s links and tweets, 2023-03-01

jasoncrawfordMar 1, 2023, 8:33 PM
6 points
0 comments1 min readPF link
(rootsofprogress.org)

The Roots of Progress’s 2022 in review

jasoncrawfordJan 1, 2023, 2:54 AM
6 points
0 comments15 min readPF link
(rootsofprogress.org)

Launch­ing a new progress in­sti­tute, seek­ing a CEO

jasoncrawfordJul 18, 2022, 4:56 PM
6 points
0 comments3 min readPF link
(rootsofprogress.org)

Ja­son’s links and tweets, 2022-12-20

jasoncrawfordDec 21, 2022, 12:35 AM
6 points
0 comments3 min readPF link
(rootsofprogress.org)

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

jasoncrawfordJun 25, 2024, 2:15 PM
6 points
0 comments1 min readPF link
(rootsofprogress.org)

Notes on Differ­en­tial Tech­nolog­i­cal Development

Chris LeongJan 14, 2024, 4:09 PM
6 points
1 comment1 min readPF link
(michaelnotebook.com)

The Art of Med­i­cal Progress

Tina Marsh DaltonOct 30, 2023, 5:59 PM
6 points
2 comments4 min readPF link

Marc An­dreessen pens “Techno-Op­ti­mist Man­i­festo.” Discuss

jasoncrawfordOct 16, 2023, 2:16 PM
6 points
17 comments1 min readPF link
(a16z.com)

A Progress Stud­ies His­tory of Early MIT — Part 1: Train­ing the en­g­ineers who built the country

ericgilliamJul 28, 2022, 10:58 PM
6 points
1 comment27 min readPF link
(freaktakes.substack.com)

What I’ve been read­ing, Septem­ber 2023

jasoncrawfordSep 6, 2023, 9:32 AM
5 points
0 comments5 min readPF link
(rootsofprogress.org)

In­ter­land: The Coun­try In The Intersection

Maxwell TabarrokMay 20, 2022, 2:29 PM
5 points
1 comment5 min readPF link
(maximumprogress.substack.com)

What does it mean to “trust sci­ence”?

jasoncrawfordAug 16, 2023, 2:55 PM
5 points
0 comments1 min readPF link
(rootsofprogress.org)

Ja­son’s links di­gest, 2023-08-17: Cloud seed­ing, robotic sculp­tors, and rogue planets

jasoncrawfordAug 17, 2023, 8:29 PM
5 points
0 comments4 min readPF link
(rootsofprogress.org)

This Can Go On—Pt. 2: Against In­tu­itions About Crazy Growth

Dwarkesh PatelAug 5, 2022, 11:23 PM
5 points
1 comment5 min readPF link
(www.dwarkeshpatel.com)

What I’ve been read­ing, July–Au­gust 2023

jasoncrawfordAug 7, 2023, 2:22 PM
5 points
2 comments12 min readPF link
(rootsofprogress.org)

Build­ing Fast and Slow Part II—The World Trade Center

briancpotterDec 16, 2022, 12:58 AM
5 points
0 comments6 min readPF link
(constructionphysics.substack.com)

Pod­casts: Fu­ture of Life In­sti­tute, Break­through Science Sum­mit panel

jasoncrawfordJul 26, 2023, 2:28 PM
5 points
0 comments1 min readPF link
(rootsofprogress.org)

The Roots of Progress Blog-Build­ing In­ten­sive: ad­vice for ap­pli­cants, re­quest for support

jasoncrawfordAug 2, 2023, 3:37 PM
5 points
0 comments1 min readPF link
(rootsofprogress.org)