Link post
AMA: Matt Clancy, Open Philanthropy
The Rise of Steel—Part I, by Brian Potter
Sloan Foundation offering $75k–250k grants for history of science, technology, economics, and social science (via @SloanFoundation and @epistemographer)
Our World in Data is hiring a Human Resources Manager (via @OurWorldInData)
Virginia Postrel wants stories about progress in materials, and writers to tell them
Video: Works in Progress interviews leaders of ARIA (the “UK DARPA”) (via @s8mb)
In 1858, The Atlantic published a poem about the telegraph (via @LouisAnslow)
Tyler Cowen on LLMs: “We are going to have a whole new set of channels”
“Regulation provides the fulcrum but it’s interest groups that man the lever”
Interferon λ cuts covid risk by ~50% (but the FDA won’t let you have it)
LessWrong 2021 Review. I got a bronze prize for my history of factory safety, and honorable mentions for book reviews on nuclear power and Andrew Carnegie
When carriages were a culture-war issue
Agriculture as a governance problem
A review of Seeing Like a State in six tweets
“Megaprojects breed extraction,” and other lessons from the Second Avenue Subway
“Biden admin is determined to make infrastructure spending more expensive”
Imagine living in San Francisco in the 1930s
An 1813 locomotive prototype used mechanical legs to push itself along the ground
Jason’s links and tweets, 2023-02-15
Link post
Here on the Progress Forum (ICYMI)
AMA: Matt Clancy, Open Philanthropy
The Rise of Steel—Part I, by Brian Potter
Opportunities
Sloan Foundation offering $75k–250k grants for history of science, technology, economics, and social science (via @SloanFoundation and @epistemographer)
Our World in Data is hiring a Human Resources Manager (via @OurWorldInData)
Virginia Postrel wants stories about progress in materials, and writers to tell them
Links
Video: Works in Progress interviews leaders of ARIA (the “UK DARPA”) (via @s8mb)
In 1858, The Atlantic published a poem about the telegraph (via @LouisAnslow)
Tyler Cowen on LLMs: “We are going to have a whole new set of channels”
“Regulation provides the fulcrum but it’s interest groups that man the lever”
Interferon λ cuts covid risk by ~50% (but the FDA won’t let you have it)
LessWrong 2021 Review. I got a bronze prize for my history of factory safety, and honorable mentions for book reviews on nuclear power and Andrew Carnegie
Quotes
When carriages were a culture-war issue
Agriculture as a governance problem
Tweets & retweets
A review of Seeing Like a State in six tweets
“Megaprojects breed extraction,” and other lessons from the Second Avenue Subway
“Biden admin is determined to make infrastructure spending more expensive”
Imagine living in San Francisco in the 1930s
An 1813 locomotive prototype used mechanical legs to push itself along the ground