Link post
Derek Thompson interviews Patrick Collison on progress
Essay contest: “How could science be different?” (via @moreisdifferent)
“What’s my hope? To show you that we live in a more interesting world than you might think; that it’s more comprehensible than you might fear; and that more things are possible than you might imagine”
“This is the most normal and placid things are ever going to be”
“We are heading into a world where a flat screen TV that covers your entire wall costs $100, and a four year college degree costs $1 million”
The U.S. is a build-nothing country. See also @ericgoldwyn’s comment
Samuel Smiles, industrial biographer and founder of the self-help genre
Adversarial collaboration on how income relates to well-being (via @amandaegeiser)
Be careful inferring causality in the presence of control loops
Brass Birmingham is a board game set in the Industrial Revolution (h/t @ejames_c)
The Iconographic Encyclopædia of Science, Literature, and Art
Who are the most influential essay writers who never wrote books?
What should Dwarkesh ask Scott Aaronson? and Eliezer Yudkowsky?
Is there any study comparing independents to employees on job satisfaction?
What’s the best book about pre-21st century General Electric?
What should Anastasia read after Kuhn relevant to research and progress?
Any other authors have data loss problems with Scrivener?
What has happened since this was made in 2017? Is pharma IRR negative now?
Are we going through a crisis of meaning in our jobs?
What does solar look like in the limit? (thread)
We have created the heaven our ancestors dreamed of
A Keatsian science sonnet. “More scientific heroes in literature please”
The real effect of LLMs on software will be felt after 6–18 months of the product cycle
AI problems that were considered “nowhere near solved” in a book published 2021
In SF a pedestrian bridge costs $200M and presents ”daunting logistics”
Academia encourages historians to prioritize tenure at the expense of social value
Predicting the future is hard, Bertrand Russell edition
Shape rotators 📈, wordcels 📉
The first radio telescope was built by an amateur in his back yard
Last week’s chart on worker/revenue ratio adjusted for inflation, a bit less dramatic
Jason’s links and tweets, 2023-03-08
Link post
Here on the Progress Forum (ICYMI)
Derek Thompson interviews Patrick Collison on progress
Opportunities
Essay contest: “How could science be different?” (via @moreisdifferent)
Marc Andreessen is blogging again
“What’s my hope? To show you that we live in a more interesting world than you might think; that it’s more comprehensible than you might fear; and that more things are possible than you might imagine”
“This is the most normal and placid things are ever going to be”
“We are heading into a world where a flat screen TV that covers your entire wall costs $100, and a four year college degree costs $1 million”
Links
The U.S. is a build-nothing country. See also @ericgoldwyn’s comment
Samuel Smiles, industrial biographer and founder of the self-help genre
Adversarial collaboration on how income relates to well-being (via @amandaegeiser)
Be careful inferring causality in the presence of control loops
Brass Birmingham is a board game set in the Industrial Revolution (h/t @ejames_c)
The Iconographic Encyclopædia of Science, Literature, and Art
Queries
Who are the most influential essay writers who never wrote books?
What should Dwarkesh ask Scott Aaronson? and Eliezer Yudkowsky?
Is there any study comparing independents to employees on job satisfaction?
What’s the best book about pre-21st century General Electric?
What should Anastasia read after Kuhn relevant to research and progress?
Any other authors have data loss problems with Scrivener?
What has happened since this was made in 2017? Is pharma IRR negative now?
Tweets & retweets
Are we going through a crisis of meaning in our jobs?
What does solar look like in the limit? (thread)
We have created the heaven our ancestors dreamed of
A Keatsian science sonnet. “More scientific heroes in literature please”
The real effect of LLMs on software will be felt after 6–18 months of the product cycle
AI problems that were considered “nowhere near solved” in a book published 2021
In SF a pedestrian bridge costs $200M and presents ”daunting logistics”
Academia encourages historians to prioritize tenure at the expense of social value
Predicting the future is hard, Bertrand Russell edition
Shape rotators 📈, wordcels 📉
The first radio telescope was built by an amateur in his back yard
Charts
Last week’s chart on worker/revenue ratio adjusted for inflation, a bit less dramatic