Link post
The Roots of Progress email newsletter is now on Substack. If you have a Substack, I’d love a recommendation—thank you!
The Science for Progress Initiative to catalyze research on the scientific process (announcement via @heidilwilliams_)
Biotech startup hiring RAs and Scientists to develop therapies against aging and age-related diseases (@ArtirKel)
Cameron Wiese (World’s Fair Co) is looking for an events/ops person “to help create a magical experience next month” (@camwiese)
Are technologies inevitable? (by @mattsclancy)
Nuclear energy is misunderstood, rarely celebrated, and deeply underinvested in (by @juliadewahl)
Econ paper claiming that part of the explanation for the British Industrial Revolution is that British engineers were working on more central/fundamental technological problems
Sunny Bono says that “entrepreneurial capitalism” is the solution to extreme poverty, and he’s been reading Where Is My Flying Car? (via Marginal Revolution and @_TamaraWinter)
What are the most interesting megastructure ideas? (@michael_nielsen)
What is the right context & funding model for an inventor today? (@piammichel)
Looking for good examples of technology overlapping S curves (@_brianpotter)
What are some lesser-known enormous infrastructure, construction, or R&D projects in US history? (@_brianpotter)
If a media company wanted to inspire hope & self-efficacy what type of content would they produce? (@willobri)
What are all the attempts to create a pro nuclear coalition in the western world? (@PradyuPrasad)
What’s the best way to get old annual reports for public companies? (@_brianpotter)
What explains “maximalism”? (@kanjun)
We are problem-solving animals
We live in the future
Some events that took place in the same time in history but don’t seem like they would have
Cruise expands driverless service area to cover almost all of SF (@kvogt)
222nm light to kill pathogens is probably a decade or more away from widespread usage (@davidmanheim)
Why the First Amendment guarantees freedom of religion (@BretDevereaux)
Zeynep’s law: assume counterintuitive findings to be false, and second-order effects to be dwarfed by first-order ones (@zeynep)
Search books by concept instead of keyword, using AI (@dwarkesh_sp). And: =GPT3(), a way to run GPT-3 prompts in Google Sheets (@shubroski)
Every new Lego piece has to fit with every piece ever made, so the most variability allowed is 0.0005” (@TrungTPhan)
Society ditched the well understood Health & Safety hierarchy of controls for covid (@Insect_Song)
SFO once had a popular helicopter service (@zachklein)
A bold vision for the future of cruise ships (@KelseyTuoc)
Of 100 drugs entering clinical development, only 8 or so are eventually approved (@Atelfo)
The global suicide rate has declined substantially in recent decades (@MaxCRoser)
Progress links and tweets, 2022-11-15
Link post
Announcements
The Roots of Progress email newsletter is now on Substack. If you have a Substack, I’d love a recommendation—thank you!
The Science for Progress Initiative to catalyze research on the scientific process (announcement via @heidilwilliams_)
Biotech startup hiring RAs and Scientists to develop therapies against aging and age-related diseases (@ArtirKel)
Cameron Wiese (World’s Fair Co) is looking for an events/ops person “to help create a magical experience next month” (@camwiese)
Links
Are technologies inevitable? (by @mattsclancy)
Nuclear energy is misunderstood, rarely celebrated, and deeply underinvested in (by @juliadewahl)
Econ paper claiming that part of the explanation for the British Industrial Revolution is that British engineers were working on more central/fundamental technological problems
Sunny Bono says that “entrepreneurial capitalism” is the solution to extreme poverty, and he’s been reading Where Is My Flying Car? (via Marginal Revolution and @_TamaraWinter)
Queries
What are the most interesting megastructure ideas? (@michael_nielsen)
What is the right context & funding model for an inventor today? (@piammichel)
Looking for good examples of technology overlapping S curves (@_brianpotter)
What are some lesser-known enormous infrastructure, construction, or R&D projects in US history? (@_brianpotter)
If a media company wanted to inspire hope & self-efficacy what type of content would they produce? (@willobri)
What are all the attempts to create a pro nuclear coalition in the western world? (@PradyuPrasad)
What’s the best way to get old annual reports for public companies? (@_brianpotter)
What explains “maximalism”? (@kanjun)
Tweets
We are problem-solving animals
We live in the future
Some events that took place in the same time in history but don’t seem like they would have
Retweets
Cruise expands driverless service area to cover almost all of SF (@kvogt)
222nm light to kill pathogens is probably a decade or more away from widespread usage (@davidmanheim)
Why the First Amendment guarantees freedom of religion (@BretDevereaux)
Zeynep’s law: assume counterintuitive findings to be false, and second-order effects to be dwarfed by first-order ones (@zeynep)
Search books by concept instead of keyword, using AI (@dwarkesh_sp). And: =GPT3(), a way to run GPT-3 prompts in Google Sheets (@shubroski)
Every new Lego piece has to fit with every piece ever made, so the most variability allowed is 0.0005” (@TrungTPhan)
Society ditched the well understood Health & Safety hierarchy of controls for covid (@Insect_Song)
SFO once had a popular helicopter service (@zachklein)
A bold vision for the future of cruise ships (@KelseyTuoc)
Charts
Of 100 drugs entering clinical development, only 8 or so are eventually approved (@Atelfo)
The global suicide rate has declined substantially in recent decades (@MaxCRoser)