Link post
In case you missed it:
My AMA (ask me anything)
Are Technologies Inevitable? (Matt Clancy)
Comparing process improvement in manufacturing and construction: Duco vs Drywall (Brian Potter)
An optogenetic retinal prosthesis (via @maxhodak_)
The Atlantic Progress Summit, LA, Dec 13 (via @DKThomp). There is a community meetup planned around this
A new mRNA vaccine against all known influenza virus subtypes (via @ScottEHensley)
Waymo One is opening to the public in San Francisco (via @Waymo)
AI plays Diplomacy (via @ml_perception). See Zvi Mowshowitz’s take
Kevin Esvelt on how to prevent the next pandemic. In the inagural issue of the new Asterisk Magazine
Guinea worm disease is close to being eradicated (via @redouad)
Tyler Cowen on falling inequality
Concrete visions/narratives for technology over the next 20-30 years?) (@nabeelqu)
What’s the best economic case for space?
Examples of path-dependency in technology? (@_brianpotter)
Who should Milan Cvitkovic meet in London or Oxford? (@MWCvitkovic)
Anyone know about the early history of semiconductor research?
Who would you like to see speak at Peter Diamandis’s Abundance360 Summit? (@PeterDiamandis)
Suggested reading on the issue of preindustrial child abandonment?
What’s the most interesting thing/person/event in the world right now? (@pmarca)
Turn-of-the-century horsesharing programs
The spirit of applied science, on the eve of the era of synthetic chemistry
Questions that arose when converting wood-burning houses to coal
If you like privacy, be glad you were born after indoor plumbing
The rapid transformation from containerization took everyone by surprise
Top athletes don’t see what they do as sacrificial at all. They like it (@mbateman)
Applying a theory to make predictions is not a matter of naive “extrapolation”
US-Russian relations, 1960s
The challenges of long-distance transportation of hydrogen
Well-being as value-fulfillment
Hot takes cool down in prediction markets
When you make it harder to exit something, you make it harder to enter
Civil asset forfeiture delenda est
Americans are an amazing people, but perfectionist (@yashevde)
A potential US rail strike would cause major supply chain disruptions (@typesfast)
Jason’s links and tweets, 2022-11-29
Link post
Here on the Progress Forum
In case you missed it:
My AMA (ask me anything)
Are Technologies Inevitable? (Matt Clancy)
Comparing process improvement in manufacturing and construction: Duco vs Drywall (Brian Potter)
Announcements
An optogenetic retinal prosthesis (via @maxhodak_)
The Atlantic Progress Summit, LA, Dec 13 (via @DKThomp). There is a community meetup planned around this
A new mRNA vaccine against all known influenza virus subtypes (via @ScottEHensley)
Waymo One is opening to the public in San Francisco (via @Waymo)
AI plays Diplomacy (via @ml_perception). See Zvi Mowshowitz’s take
Links
Kevin Esvelt on how to prevent the next pandemic. In the inagural issue of the new Asterisk Magazine
Guinea worm disease is close to being eradicated (via @redouad)
Tyler Cowen on falling inequality
Queries
Concrete visions/narratives for technology over the next 20-30 years?) (@nabeelqu)
What’s the best economic case for space?
Examples of path-dependency in technology? (@_brianpotter)
Who should Milan Cvitkovic meet in London or Oxford? (@MWCvitkovic)
Anyone know about the early history of semiconductor research?
Who would you like to see speak at Peter Diamandis’s Abundance360 Summit? (@PeterDiamandis)
Suggested reading on the issue of preindustrial child abandonment?
What’s the most interesting thing/person/event in the world right now? (@pmarca)
Quotes
Turn-of-the-century horsesharing programs
The spirit of applied science, on the eve of the era of synthetic chemistry
Questions that arose when converting wood-burning houses to coal
If you like privacy, be glad you were born after indoor plumbing
The rapid transformation from containerization took everyone by surprise
Top athletes don’t see what they do as sacrificial at all. They like it (@mbateman)
Applying a theory to make predictions is not a matter of naive “extrapolation”
US-Russian relations, 1960s
Tweets & retweets
The challenges of long-distance transportation of hydrogen
Well-being as value-fulfillment
Hot takes cool down in prediction markets
When you make it harder to exit something, you make it harder to enter
Civil asset forfeiture delenda est
Americans are an amazing people, but perfectionist (@yashevde)
A potential US rail strike would cause major supply chain disruptions (@typesfast)