Progress links and tweets, 2023-01-04

[jasoncrawford]

Link post

Progress Forum

• Building Fast and Slow Part III: Design of the World Trade Center (Brian Potter)

• Why pessimism sounds smart (a oldie by yours truly)

Announcements

• Foresight Institute has a spot for a J1 visa in San Francisco in 2023 (@allisondman)

Tweets

• One container ship carries more than the whole English fleet did 440 years ago. Also: “What, load boxes ashore and then load the boxes on the ship?”

• “A fully general argument against ever doing anything that changes anything, ever”

• Sometimes giving someone a book changes the course of their life

Retweets

• “We already have the tools to preserve brains fantastically well”

• So many of the world’s great infrastructure projects would be impossible today

• The 1930 campaign to stop people from listening to recorded music

• Who are some good, interesting, up-and-coming, not-yet-famous essayists/​bloggers?

• ChatGPT can correct OCR errors in historical texts

• California court rules that economic growth as such is an environmental harm (!)

• A rapid combo test for covid, flu and RSV. Unfortunately illegal in the US