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Progress Studies

TagLast edit: 18 Nov 2022 5:28 UTC by Yoav Ravid

Progress Studies is the study of the causes of civilizational progress, e.g., the combination of economic, technological, scientific, and cultural advancements that have transformed human life and raised standards of living over the past couple of centuries.

The bicycle, as we know it today, was not invented until the late 1800s. Yet it was a simple mechanical invention. It would seem to require no brilliant inventive insight, and certainly no scientific background.
Why, then, wasn’t it invented much earlier? – Why did we wait so long for the bicycle?

See also:

Origin of the Name

Progress Studies was proposed as an academic field by Tyler Cowen and Patrick Collison [1] after they noticed that there’s no intellectual movement focused on understanding the dynamics of progress, or on trying to speed it up.

External Resources

Epistemic stan­dards for “Why did it take so long to in­vent X?”

jasoncrawford2 Mar 2020 18:58 UTC
90 points
16 comments6 min readLW link
(rootsofprogress.org)

Dis­con­tin­u­ous progress in his­tory: an update

KatjaGrace14 Apr 2020 0:00 UTC
186 points
25 comments31 min readLW link1 review
(aiimpacts.org)

An­nounc­ing the Progress Forum

jasoncrawford17 Nov 2022 19:26 UTC
83 points
9 comments1 min readLW link

Tech­nol­ogy Changes Constraints

johnswentworth25 Jan 2020 23:13 UTC
112 points
6 comments4 min readLW link

[An­swer] Why wasn’t sci­ence in­vented in China?

Ruby23 Apr 2019 21:47 UTC
94 points
46 comments21 min readLW link1 review

In­dus­trial literacy

jasoncrawford30 Sep 2020 16:39 UTC
294 points
128 comments3 min readLW link
(rootsofprogress.org)

Two Kinds of Tech­nol­ogy Change

johnswentworth11 Oct 2018 4:54 UTC
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19 comments3 min readLW link

Some ex­am­ples of tech­nol­ogy timelines

NunoSempere27 Mar 2020 18:13 UTC
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0 comments16 min readLW link

Study­ing Early Stage Science: Re­search Pro­gram Introduction

habryka17 Jan 2020 22:12 UTC
32 points
1 comment15 min readLW link
(medium.com)

Why did ev­ery­thing take so long?

KatjaGrace29 Dec 2017 1:00 UTC
33 points
17 comments1 min readLW link
(meteuphoric.wordpress.com)

Is Science Slow­ing Down?

Scott Alexander27 Nov 2018 3:30 UTC
125 points
77 comments9 min readLW link1 review
(slatestarcodex.com)

The 300-year jour­ney to the covid vaccine

jasoncrawford9 Nov 2020 23:06 UTC
122 points
9 comments5 min readLW link2 reviews
(rootsofprogress.org)

Beyond the mo­ment of invention

jasoncrawford16 Dec 2022 20:18 UTC
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0 comments2 min readLW link
(rootsofprogress.org)

Why has nu­clear power been a flop?

jasoncrawford16 Apr 2021 16:49 UTC
144 points
49 comments15 min readLW link2 reviews
(rootsofprogress.org)

Why haven’t we cel­e­brated any ma­jor achieve­ments lately?

jasoncrawford17 Aug 2020 20:34 UTC
194 points
69 comments12 min readLW link2 reviews
(rootsofprogress.org)

The Coper­ni­can Revolu­tion from the Inside

jacobjacob1 Nov 2017 10:51 UTC
122 points
45 comments19 min readLW link

High­lights from the mem­o­irs of Van­nevar Bush

jasoncrawford15 Jul 2022 18:08 UTC
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0 comments13 min readLW link
(rootsofprogress.org)

19th-cen­tury progress studies

jasoncrawford27 Aug 2020 2:28 UTC
30 points
0 comments3 min readLW link
(rootsofprogress.org)

BBC Fu­ture cov­ers progress studies

jasoncrawford16 Jun 2022 22:44 UTC
21 points
6 comments3 min readLW link
(rootsofprogress.org)

Hu­man­ity is Win­ning the Fight Against In­fec­tious Disease

lsusr30 Aug 2021 1:31 UTC
60 points
8 comments2 min readLW link

Thiel on Progress and Stagnation

Richard_Ngo20 Jul 2020 20:27 UTC
173 points
32 comments11 min readLW link
(docs.google.com)

Think wider about the root causes of progress

jasoncrawford21 Dec 2022 20:05 UTC
49 points
11 comments4 min readLW link
(rootsofprogress.org)

A dash­board for progress

jasoncrawford21 Mar 2021 3:51 UTC
24 points
9 comments2 min readLW link
(rootsofprogress.org)

How to end stag­na­tion?

jasoncrawford1 Mar 2021 19:42 UTC
36 points
35 comments4 min readLW link
(rootsofprogress.org)

1960: The Year The Sin­gu­lar­ity Was Cancelled

Scott Alexander23 Apr 2019 1:30 UTC
103 points
15 comments11 min readLW link1 review
(slatestarcodex.com)

Why Weren’t Hot Air Bal­loons In­vented Sooner?

Lost Futures18 Oct 2022 0:41 UTC
115 points
52 comments6 min readLW link
(lostfutures.substack.com)

Why didn’t we get the four-hour work­day?

jasoncrawford6 Jan 2023 21:29 UTC
135 points
34 comments6 min readLW link
(rootsofprogress.org)

Who reg­u­lates the reg­u­la­tors? We need to go be­yond the re­view-and-ap­proval paradigm

jasoncrawford4 May 2023 22:11 UTC
122 points
29 comments13 min readLW link
(rootsofprogress.org)

The Rise and Fall of Amer­i­can Growth: A summary

jasoncrawford5 Oct 2020 21:41 UTC
58 points
9 comments11 min readLW link
(rootsofprogress.org)

In­stant stone (just add wa­ter!)

jasoncrawford13 Nov 2019 22:33 UTC
99 points
27 comments4 min readLW link3 reviews
(rootsofprogress.org)

Book re­view: The Sleep­walk­ers by Arthur Koestler

Richard_Ngo23 Apr 2019 0:10 UTC
68 points
26 comments9 min readLW link
(thinkingcomplete.blogspot.com)

In­tel­lec­tual Progress In­side and Out­side Academia

Ben Pace2 Sep 2017 23:08 UTC
40 points
5 comments14 min readLW link

Progress links di­gest, 2023-11-07: Techno-op­ti­mism and more

jasoncrawford8 Nov 2023 2:05 UTC
17 points
7 comments11 min readLW link
(rootsofprogress.org)

Shut­tling be­tween sci­ence and invention

jasoncrawford27 May 2020 21:25 UTC
61 points
1 comment6 min readLW link1 review
(rootsofprogress.org)

Pas­teur’s quadrant

jasoncrawford5 Jun 2020 17:47 UTC
34 points
2 comments5 min readLW link
(rootsofprogress.org)

Progress links di­gest, 2023-11-24: Bot­tle­necks of ag­ing, Star­ship launches, and much more

jasoncrawford24 Nov 2023 15:25 UTC
40 points
1 comment14 min readLW link
(rootsofprogress.org)

Nei­ther EA nor e/​acc is what we need to build the future

jasoncrawford28 Nov 2023 16:04 UTC
0 points
22 comments3 min readLW link
(rootsofprogress.org)

The ori­gins of the steam en­g­ine: An es­say with in­ter­ac­tive an­i­mated diagrams

jasoncrawford29 Nov 2023 18:30 UTC
30 points
0 comments1 min readLW link
(rootsofprogress.org)

Ac­cel­er­at­ing sci­ence through evolv­able institutions

jasoncrawford4 Dec 2023 23:21 UTC
19 points
9 comments6 min readLW link
(rootsofprogress.org)

Book re­view: The Tech­nol­ogy Trap

Richard_Ngo20 Jul 2019 12:40 UTC
28 points
1 comment5 min readLW link
(thinkingcomplete.blogspot.com)

Why ev­ery­thing might have taken so long

KatjaGrace1 Jan 2018 1:00 UTC
112 points
16 comments3 min readLW link1 review
(meteuphoric.wordpress.com)

The Fu­ture of Science

Richard_Ngo28 Jul 2020 2:43 UTC
21 points
2 comments7 min readLW link

Tra­di­tion is Smarter Than You Are

Kaj_Sotala19 Sep 2018 17:54 UTC
64 points
10 comments1 min readLW link
(scholars-stage.blogspot.com)

The Era Of Un­limited Every­thing: Un­limited Ma­te­ri­als & Un­limited Money

jdcampolargo1 Aug 2020 3:01 UTC
4 points
11 comments10 min readLW link

The YouTube Revolu­tion in Knowl­edge Transfer

Samo Burja17 Sep 2019 20:10 UTC
66 points
7 comments4 min readLW link
(medium.com)

Progress links and tweets, 2023-05-03

jasoncrawford3 May 2023 16:23 UTC
13 points
0 comments2 min readLW link
(rootsofprogress.org)

What Ja­son has been read­ing, May 2023: “Pro­topia,” com­plex sys­tems, Daedalus vs. Icarus, and more

jasoncrawford5 May 2023 19:54 UTC
25 points
2 comments11 min readLW link
(rootsofprogress.org)

Quote quiz answer

jasoncrawford9 May 2023 13:27 UTC
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0 comments4 min readLW link
(rootsofprogress.org)

Progress links and tweets, 2023-05-09

jasoncrawford9 May 2023 20:22 UTC
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0 comments2 min readLW link
(rootsofprogress.org)

Progress links and tweets, 2023-05-16

jasoncrawford16 May 2023 20:54 UTC
14 points
0 comments1 min readLW link
(rootsofprogress.org)

What if they gave an In­dus­trial Revolu­tion and no­body came?

jasoncrawford17 May 2023 19:41 UTC
93 points
10 comments19 min readLW link
(rootsofprogress.org)

Progress links and tweets, 2023-05-23

jasoncrawford23 May 2023 20:15 UTC
16 points
0 comments1 min readLW link
(rootsofprogress.org)

They don’t make ’em like they used to

jasoncrawford27 Oct 2021 19:44 UTC
39 points
84 comments2 min readLW link
(rootsofprogress.org)

Cel­lu­lar re­pro­gram­ming, pneu­matic launch sys­tems, and ter­raform­ing Mars: Some things I learned about at Fore­sight Vi­sion Weekend

jasoncrawford4 Jan 2024 19:33 UTC
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0 comments8 min readLW link
(rootsofprogress.org)

Mak­ing up statis­tics to es­tab­lish pri­or­ity on Land Value Tax vs Earned In­come Tax Credit vs So­cial Me­dia Dy­namic Regulation

Canucklug14 Jan 2024 23:57 UTC
−5 points
2 comments7 min readLW link

There is way too much serendipity

Malmesbury19 Jan 2024 19:37 UTC
340 points
56 comments7 min readLW link

Mak­ing ev­ery re­searcher seek grants is a bro­ken model

jasoncrawford26 Jan 2024 16:06 UTC
150 points
41 comments4 min readLW link
(rootsofprogress.org)

What is progress?

jasoncrawford9 Mar 2024 16:28 UTC
10 points
4 comments6 min readLW link
(rootsofprogress.org)

Why you, per­son­ally, should want a larger hu­man population

jasoncrawford23 Feb 2024 19:48 UTC
32 points
32 comments5 min readLW link
(rootsofprogress.org)

Progress links and tweets, 2023-03-22

jasoncrawford22 Mar 2023 22:19 UTC
13 points
0 comments2 min readLW link
(rootsofprogress.org)

Why con­sumerism is good actually

jasoncrawford24 Mar 2023 17:42 UTC
11 points
15 comments1 min readLW link
(rootsofprogress.org)

Wizards and prophets of AI [draft for com­ment]

jasoncrawford31 Mar 2023 20:22 UTC
16 points
11 comments6 min readLW link

Progress links and tweets, 2023-04-05

jasoncrawford5 Apr 2023 16:18 UTC
20 points
0 comments2 min readLW link
(rootsofprogress.org)

Do we get bet­ter or worse at adapt­ing to change?

jasoncrawford6 Apr 2023 14:42 UTC
12 points
2 comments3 min readLW link
(rootsofprogress.org)

What Ja­son has been read­ing, April 2023

jasoncrawford11 Apr 2023 16:29 UTC
18 points
0 comments5 min readLW link
(rootsofprogress.org)

Bryan Bishop AMA on the Progress Forum

jasoncrawford11 Apr 2023 21:05 UTC
8 points
0 comments1 min readLW link
(rootsofprogress.org)

Progress links and tweets, 2023-04-12

jasoncrawford12 Apr 2023 16:52 UTC
8 points
2 comments1 min readLW link
(rootsofprogress.org)

The Com­mis­sion for Stop­ping Fur­ther Im­prove­ments: A let­ter of note from Isam­bard K. Brunel

jasoncrawford21 Apr 2023 17:42 UTC
39 points
0 comments4 min readLW link
(rootsofprogress.org)

Progress links and tweets, 2023-04-24

jasoncrawford24 Apr 2023 21:17 UTC
16 points
1 comment2 min readLW link
(rootsofprogress.org)

Quote quiz: “drift­ing into de­pen­dence”

jasoncrawford27 Apr 2023 15:13 UTC
7 points
6 comments1 min readLW link
(rootsofprogress.org)

What I’ve been read­ing, Novem­ber 2023

jasoncrawford7 Nov 2023 13:37 UTC
23 points
1 comment5 min readLW link
(rootsofprogress.org)

Why did we wait so long for the bi­cy­cle?

Ruby17 Jul 2019 18:45 UTC
47 points
10 comments3 min readLW link
(rootsofprogress.org)

An­nounc­ing Progress Stud­ies for Young Schol­ars, an on­line sum­mer pro­gram in the his­tory of technology

jasoncrawford20 May 2020 0:52 UTC
19 points
0 comments1 min readLW link
(rootsofprogress.org)

[Question] Why didn’t Agoric Com­put­ing be­come pop­u­lar?

Wei Dai16 Feb 2019 6:19 UTC
52 points
22 comments2 min readLW link

Turn­ing air into bread

jasoncrawford21 Oct 2019 17:50 UTC
103 points
12 comments6 min readLW link1 review
(rootsofprogress.org)

On the Loss and Preser­va­tion of Knowledge

Samo Burja8 Mar 2018 18:40 UTC
66 points
20 comments10 min readLW link
(medium.com)

Why Science is slow­ing down, Univer­si­ties and Maslow’s hi­er­ar­chy of needs

George3d615 Feb 2020 20:39 UTC
16 points
25 comments10 min readLW link

“Is Science Bro­ken?” is underspecified

NancyLebovitz12 Aug 2016 11:59 UTC
16 points
11 comments1 min readLW link

Why any­thing that can be for-profit, should be

jasoncrawford29 Apr 2020 20:00 UTC
50 points
39 comments6 min readLW link
(rootsofprogress.org)

A let­ter on op­ti­mism about hu­man progress

jasoncrawford4 Dec 2019 4:21 UTC
34 points
3 comments3 min readLW link
(letter.wiki)

Tech­noc­racy and the Space Age

jasoncrawford26 Jul 2022 23:14 UTC
25 points
5 comments2 min readLW link
(rootsofprogress.org)

Progress links and tweets, 2022-07-27

jasoncrawford27 Jul 2022 17:20 UTC
18 points
0 comments1 min readLW link
(rootsofprogress.org)

Progress links and tweets, 2022-08-02

jasoncrawford2 Aug 2022 17:03 UTC
9 points
0 comments1 min readLW link
(rootsofprogress.org)

Fiber arts, mys­te­ri­ous do­dec­a­he­drons, and wait­ing on “Eureka!”

eukaryote4 Aug 2022 20:37 UTC
124 points
15 comments9 min readLW link1 review
(eukaryotewritesblog.com)

The les­sons of Xanadu

jasoncrawford7 Aug 2022 17:59 UTC
109 points
20 comments8 min readLW link
(jasoncrawford.org)

Progress links and tweets, 2022-08-09

jasoncrawford9 Aug 2022 17:35 UTC
11 points
3 comments1 min readLW link
(rootsofprogress.org)

Progress links and tweets, 2022-08-17

jasoncrawford17 Aug 2022 21:27 UTC
11 points
0 comments2 min readLW link
(rootsofprogress.org)

A con­ver­sa­tion about progress and safety

jasoncrawford18 Aug 2022 18:36 UTC
12 points
0 comments7 min readLW link
(rootsofprogress.org)

What does moral progress con­sist of?

jasoncrawford19 Aug 2022 0:22 UTC
32 points
23 comments2 min readLW link
(forum.effectivealtruism.org)

Progress links and tweets, 2022-08-23

jasoncrawford23 Aug 2022 17:30 UTC
7 points
2 comments1 min readLW link
(rootsofprogress.org)

Event in SF: Fore­sight In­sti­tute meetup, Sep 8

jasoncrawford25 Aug 2022 20:53 UTC
9 points
0 comments1 min readLW link
(rootsofprogress.org)

Progress links and tweets, 2022-08-31

jasoncrawford31 Aug 2022 21:54 UTC
13 points
4 comments1 min readLW link
(rootsofprogress.org)

How much im­pact can any one man have?

GregorDeVillain31 Aug 2022 10:26 UTC
9 points
3 comments4 min readLW link

Why was progress so slow in the past?

jasoncrawford1 Sep 2022 20:26 UTC
53 points
31 comments6 min readLW link
(rootsofprogress.org)

Progress links & tweets, 2022-09-08

jasoncrawford8 Sep 2022 20:43 UTC
13 points
3 comments1 min readLW link
(rootsofprogress.org)

Progress links and tweets, 2022-09-14

jasoncrawford14 Sep 2022 23:21 UTC
9 points
2 comments1 min readLW link
(rootsofprogress.org)

Towards a philos­o­phy of safety

jasoncrawford16 Sep 2022 21:10 UTC
12 points
2 comments8 min readLW link
(rootsofprogress.org)

Progress links and tweets, 2022-09-20

jasoncrawford20 Sep 2022 14:07 UTC
7 points
1 comment1 min readLW link
(rootsofprogress.org)

What hap­pened to the idea of progress?

jasoncrawford20 Sep 2022 19:56 UTC
8 points
2 comments1 min readLW link
(bigthink.com)

Progress links and tweets, 2022-09-28

jasoncrawford28 Sep 2022 20:26 UTC
13 points
1 comment1 min readLW link
(rootsofprogress.org)

Progress links and tweets, 2022-10-05

jasoncrawford5 Oct 2022 19:24 UTC
9 points
1 comment1 min readLW link
(rootsofprogress.org)

Amer­i­can in­ven­tion from the “heroic age” to the sys­tem-build­ing era

jasoncrawford6 Oct 2022 17:19 UTC
13 points
1 comment10 min readLW link
(rootsofprogress.org)

Clean­ing a Spoon is Complex

jefftk9 Oct 2022 1:10 UTC
20 points
5 comments1 min readLW link
(www.jefftk.com)

From tech­noc­racy to the counterculture

jasoncrawford11 Oct 2022 19:37 UTC
28 points
1 comment26 min readLW link
(rootsofprogress.org)

Progress links and tweets, 2022-10-12

jasoncrawford12 Oct 2022 16:59 UTC
8 points
0 comments1 min readLW link
(rootsofprogress.org)

Progress links and tweets, 2022-11-01

jasoncrawford1 Nov 2022 17:48 UTC
16 points
4 comments3 min readLW link
(rootsofprogress.org)

Should we “go against na­ture”?

jasoncrawford4 Nov 2022 22:14 UTC
10 points
3 comments2 min readLW link
(rootsofprogress.org)

When should we be sur­prised that an in­ven­tion took “so long”?

jasoncrawford16 Nov 2022 20:04 UTC
32 points
11 comments4 min readLW link
(rootsofprogress.org)

Progress links and tweets, 2022-11-15

jasoncrawford16 Nov 2022 3:21 UTC
9 points
0 comments2 min readLW link
(rootsofprogress.org)

Progress links and tweets, 2022-11-22

jasoncrawford22 Nov 2022 17:39 UTC
17 points
0 comments1 min readLW link
(rootsofprogress.org)

Progress links and tweets, 2022-11-29

jasoncrawford29 Nov 2022 20:54 UTC
9 points
0 comments1 min readLW link
(rootsofprogress.org)

An­nounc­ing the in­com­ing CEO for The Roots of Progress

jasoncrawford30 Nov 2022 23:04 UTC
16 points
0 comments1 min readLW link
(rootsofprogress.org)

Beyond a bet­ter world

Davidmanheim14 Dec 2022 10:18 UTC
14 points
7 comments4 min readLW link
(progressforum.org)

Or­di­nary hu­man life

David Hugh-Jones17 Dec 2022 16:46 UTC
24 points
1 comment14 min readLW link
(wyclif.substack.com)

Progress links and tweets, 2022-12-20

jasoncrawford21 Dec 2022 0:35 UTC
12 points
0 comments2 min readLW link
(rootsofprogress.org)

Progress links and tweets, 2022-12-29

jasoncrawford30 Dec 2022 4:54 UTC
12 points
0 comments1 min readLW link
(rootsofprogress.org)

The Roots of Progress’s 2022 in review

jasoncrawford1 Jan 2023 2:54 UTC
14 points
2 comments15 min readLW link
(rootsofprogress.org)

Progress links and tweets, 2023-01-04

jasoncrawford4 Jan 2023 18:23 UTC
15 points
0 comments1 min readLW link
(rootsofprogress.org)

How to slow down sci­en­tific progress, ac­cord­ing to Leo Szilard

jasoncrawford5 Jan 2023 18:26 UTC
134 points
18 comments2 min readLW link
(rootsofprogress.org)

Tyler Cowen AMA on the Progress Forum

jasoncrawford16 Jan 2023 17:23 UTC
19 points
0 comments1 min readLW link
(progressforum.org)

Progress links and tweets, 2023-01-17

jasoncrawford17 Jan 2023 21:31 UTC
13 points
3 comments2 min readLW link
(rootsofprogress.org)

The spiritual benefits of ma­te­rial progress

jasoncrawford19 Jan 2023 21:35 UTC
24 points
15 comments7 min readLW link
(rootsofprogress.org)

Progress links and tweets, 2023-01-25

jasoncrawford25 Jan 2023 16:12 UTC
8 points
0 comments1 min readLW link
(rootsofprogress.org)

Eli Dourado AMA on the Progress Forum

jasoncrawford28 Jan 2023 22:18 UTC
19 points
0 comments1 min readLW link
(rootsofprogress.org)

Can we “cure” can­cer?

jasoncrawford1 Feb 2023 22:03 UTC
41 points
31 comments2 min readLW link
(rootsofprogress.org)

Progress links and tweets, 2023-02-01

jasoncrawford2 Feb 2023 2:25 UTC
10 points
0 comments1 min readLW link
(rootsofprogress.org)

Who in­vented knit­ting? The plot thick­ens

eukaryote5 Feb 2023 0:24 UTC
60 points
9 comments19 min readLW link
(eukaryotewritesblog.com)

Progress links and tweets, 2023-02-08

jasoncrawford8 Feb 2023 15:52 UTC
10 points
0 comments1 min readLW link
(rootsofprogress.org)

Wanted: Tech­ni­cal an­i­ma­tor and/​or front-end de­vel­oper for in­ter­ac­tive di­a­grams of invention

jasoncrawford8 Feb 2023 17:14 UTC
30 points
3 comments1 min readLW link
(rootsofprogress.org)

Matt Clancy AMA on the Progress Forum

jasoncrawford12 Feb 2023 20:23 UTC
17 points
0 comments1 min readLW link
(progressforum.org)

[Question] How much is death a limit on knowl­edge ac­cu­mu­la­tion?

Gordon Seidoh Worley14 Feb 2023 3:54 UTC
31 points
9 comments2 min readLW link

Progress links and tweets, 2023-02-15

jasoncrawford16 Feb 2023 0:04 UTC
10 points
0 comments1 min readLW link
(rootsofprogress.org)

Spec­u­la­tive Tech­nolo­gies launch and Ben Rein­hardt AMA

jasoncrawford20 Feb 2023 16:33 UTC
16 points
0 comments1 min readLW link
(rootsofprogress.org)

Can sub­marines swim?

jasoncrawford22 Feb 2023 18:48 UTC
18 points
14 comments13 min readLW link
(rootsofprogress.org)

Progress links and tweets, 2023-02-22

jasoncrawford22 Feb 2023 16:23 UTC
13 points
0 comments1 min readLW link
(rootsofprogress.org)

Progress links and tweets, 2023-03-01

jasoncrawford1 Mar 2023 20:33 UTC
12 points
2 comments1 min readLW link
(rootsofprogress.org)

Progress links and tweets, 2023-03-08

jasoncrawford8 Mar 2023 20:37 UTC
16 points
0 comments1 min readLW link
(rootsofprogress.org)

What Ja­son has been read­ing, March 2023

jasoncrawford9 Mar 2023 18:46 UTC
12 points
0 comments6 min readLW link
(rootsofprogress.org)

The Amer­i­can In­for­ma­tion Revolu­tion in Global Perspective

jasoncrawford26 May 2023 12:39 UTC
16 points
1 comment5 min readLW link
(rootsofprogress.org)

Sto­ries About Academia

Ben Pace2 Sep 2019 18:40 UTC
34 points
1 comment19 min readLW link

Sto­ries About Progress

Ben Pace8 Sep 2019 23:07 UTC
28 points
1 comment19 min readLW link

Progress links and tweets, 2023-06-01

jasoncrawford1 Jun 2023 19:03 UTC
10 points
3 comments1 min readLW link
(rootsofprogress.org)

What I’ve been read­ing, June 2023

jasoncrawford5 Jun 2023 17:08 UTC
16 points
0 comments7 min readLW link
(rootsofprogress.org)

Progress links and tweets, 2023-06-07

jasoncrawford7 Jun 2023 23:26 UTC
11 points
0 comments1 min readLW link
(rootsofprogress.org)

A plea for solu­tion­ism on AI safety

jasoncrawford9 Jun 2023 16:29 UTC
72 points
6 comments6 min readLW link
(rootsofprogress.org)

Progress links and tweets, 2023-06-14

jasoncrawford14 Jun 2023 16:30 UTC
19 points
1 comment2 min readLW link
(rootsofprogress.org)

Devel­op­ing a tech­nol­ogy with safety in mind: Les­sons from the Wright Brothers

jasoncrawford15 Jun 2023 21:08 UTC
30 points
4 comments3 min readLW link
(rootsofprogress.org)

Can we ac­cel­er­ate hu­man progress? Moder­ated Con­ver­sa­tion in NYC

Jannik Schg15 Jun 2023 17:33 UTC
1 point
0 comments1 min readLW link

The en­vi­ron­ment as infrastructure

jasoncrawford17 Jun 2023 18:42 UTC
28 points
9 comments1 min readLW link
(rootsofprogress.org)

Progress links and tweets, 2023-06-21: Ste­wart Brand wants your comments

jasoncrawford21 Jun 2023 20:52 UTC
11 points
1 comment1 min readLW link
(rootsofprogress.org)

nu­clear costs are inflation

bhauth26 Jun 2023 22:30 UTC
6 points
42 comments5 min readLW link
(www.bhauth.com)

Progress links and tweets, 2023-06-28: “We can do big things again in Penn­syl­va­nia”

jasoncrawford28 Jun 2023 20:23 UTC
14 points
1 comment1 min readLW link
(rootsofprogress.org)

Levels of safety for AI and other technologies

jasoncrawford28 Jun 2023 18:35 UTC
16 points
0 comments2 min readLW link
(rootsofprogress.org)

An­nounc­ing The Roots of Progress Blog-Build­ing Intensive

jasoncrawford11 Jul 2023 14:04 UTC
10 points
0 comments1 min readLW link
(rootsofprogress.org)

If you wish to make an ap­ple pie, you must first be­come dic­ta­tor of the universe

jasoncrawford5 Jul 2023 18:14 UTC
27 points
9 comments13 min readLW link
(rootsofprogress.org)

Progress links and tweets, 2023-07-06: Ter­raformer Mark One, Is­raeli wa­ter man­age­ment, & more

jasoncrawford6 Jul 2023 15:35 UTC
18 points
4 comments2 min readLW link
(rootsofprogress.org)

S-Curves for Trend Forecasting

Matt Goldenberg23 Jan 2019 18:17 UTC
112 points
23 comments7 min readLW link4 reviews

An­nounc­ing: Progress Stud­ies Read­ing Group.

Sami_beanz30 Aug 2020 10:39 UTC
6 points
0 comments1 min readLW link

[Question] What makes peo­ple in­tel­lec­tu­ally ac­tive?

abramdemski29 Dec 2018 22:29 UTC
116 points
71 comments1 min readLW link

High­lights from The In­dus­trial Revolu­tion, by T. S. Ashton

jasoncrawford17 Jul 2023 19:02 UTC
17 points
0 comments10 min readLW link
(rootsofprogress.org)

Progress links and tweets, 2023-07-20: “A god­dess en­throned on a car”

jasoncrawford20 Jul 2023 18:28 UTC
12 points
4 comments2 min readLW link
(rootsofprogress.org)

Pod­casts: Fu­ture of Life In­sti­tute, Break­through Science Sum­mit panel

jasoncrawford26 Jul 2023 14:28 UTC
8 points
0 comments1 min readLW link
(rootsofprogress.org)

Why no Ro­man In­dus­trial Revolu­tion?

jasoncrawford26 Jul 2023 19:34 UTC
62 points
30 comments3 min readLW link
(rootsofprogress.org)

Progress links di­gest, 2023-07-28: The deca­dent op­u­lence of mod­ern capitalism

jasoncrawford28 Jul 2023 14:36 UTC
16 points
3 comments3 min readLW link
(rootsofprogress.org)

The Roots of Progress Blog-Build­ing In­ten­sive: ad­vice for ap­pli­cants, re­quest for support

jasoncrawford2 Aug 2023 15:37 UTC
9 points
0 comments1 min readLW link
(rootsofprogress.org)

Progress links di­gest, 2023-08-02: Su­per­con­duc­tor edition

jasoncrawford2 Aug 2023 20:27 UTC
13 points
0 comments3 min readLW link
(rootsofprogress.org)

Progress links di­gest, 2023-08-09: US adds new nu­clear, Katalin Kar­ikó in­ter­view, and more

jasoncrawford9 Aug 2023 19:22 UTC
18 points
0 comments3 min readLW link
(rootsofprogress.org)

What I’ve been read­ing, July–Au­gust 2023

jasoncrawford7 Aug 2023 14:22 UTC
23 points
0 comments13 min readLW link
(rootsofprogress.org)

Some el­e­ments of in­dus­trial literacy

jasoncrawford8 Oct 2020 19:51 UTC
9 points
3 comments1 min readLW link
(rootsofprogress.org)

Tech­nol­ogy and its side effects

jasoncrawford13 Oct 2020 20:07 UTC
17 points
3 comments3 min readLW link
(rootsofprogress.org)

Ja­son Crawford /​ The Roots of Progress in Ban­ga­lore, Au­gust 21 to Septem­ber 8

jasoncrawford16 Aug 2023 13:36 UTC
13 points
1 comment1 min readLW link
(rootsofprogress.org)

[Question] What is our true life ex­pec­tancy?

Adam Zerner23 Oct 2020 23:17 UTC
15 points
23 comments1 min readLW link

Progress links di­gest, 2023-08-17: Cloud seed­ing, robotic sculp­tors, and rogue planets

jasoncrawford17 Aug 2023 20:29 UTC
15 points
1 comment4 min readLW link
(rootsofprogress.org)

Progress links di­gest, 2023-09-01: How an­cient peo­ple ma­nipu­lated wa­ter, and more

jasoncrawford1 Sep 2023 4:33 UTC
12 points
4 comments6 min readLW link
(rootsofprogress.org)

A Golden Age of Build­ing? Ex­cerpts and les­sons from Em­pire State, Pen­tagon, Skunk Works and SpaceX

jacobjacob1 Sep 2023 4:03 UTC
181 points
23 comments24 min readLW link

A re­view of Where Is My Fly­ing Car? by J. Storrs Hall

jasoncrawford6 Nov 2020 20:01 UTC
103 points
23 comments11 min readLW link
(rootsofprogress.org)

What I’ve been read­ing, Septem­ber 2023

jasoncrawford6 Sep 2023 9:32 UTC
17 points
0 comments5 min readLW link
(rootsofprogress.org)

Progress links di­gest, 2023-09-08: The Con­ser­va­tive Fu­tur­ist, cargo air­ships, and more

jasoncrawford8 Sep 2023 17:48 UTC
14 points
7 comments5 min readLW link
(rootsofprogress.org)

Epistemic Progress

ozziegooen20 Nov 2020 19:58 UTC
61 points
16 comments5 min readLW link

The Flynn Effect Clarified

PeterMcCluskey12 Dec 2020 5:18 UTC
34 points
2 comments4 min readLW link
(www.bayesianinvestor.com)

What I’ve been read­ing, Oc­to­ber 2023: The stir­rup in Europe, 19th-cen­tury art deco, and more

jasoncrawford11 Oct 2023 16:11 UTC
18 points
2 comments11 min readLW link
(rootsofprogress.org)

Progress links di­gest, 2023-10-12: Dyson sphere ther­mo­dy­nam­ics and a cure for cavities

jasoncrawford13 Oct 2023 0:41 UTC
14 points
1 comment10 min readLW link
(rootsofprogress.org)

How to par­ti­tion teams to move fast? De­bat­ing “low-di­men­sional cuts”

13 Oct 2023 21:43 UTC
41 points
2 comments11 min readLW link

When life was liter­ally full of crap

jasoncrawford21 Dec 2020 21:16 UTC
60 points
4 comments5 min readLW link
(rootsofprogress.org)

Tech­nolog­i­cal stag­na­tion: Why I came around

jasoncrawford23 Jan 2021 22:05 UTC
191 points
79 comments8 min readLW link1 review
(rootsofprogress.org)

Clar­ifi­ca­tions on tech stagnation

jasoncrawford31 Jan 2021 0:59 UTC
20 points
3 comments1 min readLW link
(rootsofprogress.org)

[Question] Math­e­mat­i­cal Models of Progress?

abramdemski16 Feb 2021 0:21 UTC
28 points
8 comments2 min readLW link

Ex­po­nen­tial growth is the baseline

jasoncrawford22 Feb 2021 2:08 UTC
27 points
4 comments6 min readLW link
(rootsofprogress.org)

Les­sons from “The Book of My Life”

bmgarfinkel6 Jan 2021 22:40 UTC
114 points
3 comments16 min readLW link
(benmgarfinkel.wordpress.com)

High­lights from The Au­to­bi­og­ra­phy of An­drew Carnegie

jasoncrawford8 Apr 2021 22:03 UTC
92 points
9 comments19 min readLW link1 review
(rootsofprogress.org)

Wanted: Re­search As­sis­tant for The Roots of Progress

jasoncrawford19 Apr 2021 19:03 UTC
31 points
1 comment1 min readLW link
(rootsofprogress.org)

We need a ca­reer path for invention

jasoncrawford29 Apr 2021 18:11 UTC
51 points
18 comments4 min readLW link
(rootsofprogress.org)

Did the In­dus­trial Revolu­tion de­crease costs or in­crease qual­ity?

jasoncrawford20 May 2021 21:10 UTC
73 points
5 comments4 min readLW link
(rootsofprogress.org)

Why did we wait so long for the thresh­ing ma­chine?

jasoncrawford29 Jun 2021 19:55 UTC
104 points
20 comments12 min readLW link1 review
(rootsofprogress.org)

Win­ston Churchill, fu­tur­ist and EA

jasoncrawford12 Jul 2021 2:07 UTC
66 points
11 comments4 min readLW link
(rootsofprogress.org)

We need a new philos­o­phy of progress

jasoncrawford23 Aug 2021 21:31 UTC
63 points
44 comments2 min readLW link
(rootsofprogress.org)

The Roots of Progress is now a non­profit organization

jasoncrawford23 Aug 2021 21:33 UTC
44 points
4 comments2 min readLW link
(rootsofprogress.org)

Progress, Stag­na­tion, & Collapse

abramdemski22 Jul 2021 16:51 UTC
38 points
14 comments4 min readLW link

Wanted: Chief of Staff for The Roots of Progress

jasoncrawford7 Sep 2021 17:26 UTC
15 points
0 comments1 min readLW link
(rootsofprogress.org)

How fac­to­ries were made safe

jasoncrawford12 Sep 2021 19:58 UTC
179 points
46 comments18 min readLW link1 review
(rootsofprogress.org)

Fore­cast­ing Trans­for­ma­tive AI, Part 1: What Kind of AI?

HoldenKarnofsky24 Sep 2021 0:46 UTC
17 points
17 comments9 min readLW link

In the shadow of the Great War

jasoncrawford18 Oct 2021 23:08 UTC
32 points
15 comments1 min readLW link
(rootsofprogress.org)

Young Scientists

A Ray22 Oct 2021 18:01 UTC
28 points
3 comments4 min readLW link

The Roots of Progress events in Austin, Novem­ber 4–6

jasoncrawford25 Oct 2021 16:12 UTC
12 points
0 comments1 min readLW link
(rootsofprogress.org)

Progress links di­gest, 2023-12-15: Vi­talik on d/​acc, $100M+ in prizes, and more

jasoncrawford15 Dec 2023 15:52 UTC
20 points
0 comments12 min readLW link
(rootsofprogress.org)

The po­etry of progress

jasoncrawford15 Nov 2021 19:24 UTC
50 points
6 comments4 min readLW link
(rootsofprogress.org)

Meetup for The Roots of Progress in San Diego, Dec 1

jasoncrawford24 Nov 2021 22:50 UTC
7 points
0 comments1 min readLW link
(rootsofprogress.org)

The bonds of fam­ily and com­mu­nity: Poverty and cru­elty among Rus­sian peas­ants in the late 19th century

jasoncrawford28 Nov 2021 17:22 UTC
148 points
35 comments15 min readLW link1 review
(rootsofprogress.org)

Con­ver­sa­tion on tech­nol­ogy fore­cast­ing and gradualism

9 Dec 2021 21:23 UTC
108 points
30 comments31 min readLW link

More power to you

jasoncrawford15 Dec 2021 23:50 UTC
16 points
14 comments1 min readLW link
(rootsofprogress.org)

Progress, hu­man­ism, agency: An in­tel­lec­tual core for the progress movement

jasoncrawford12 Jan 2022 0:06 UTC
12 points
12 comments4 min readLW link
(rootsofprogress.org)

Why do we need a NEW philos­o­phy of progress?

jasoncrawford25 Jan 2022 17:28 UTC
75 points
26 comments8 min readLW link
(rootsofprogress.org)

Event: Mo­ral Foun­da­tions of Progress Stud­ies, March 4–6 at UT Austin

jasoncrawford26 Jan 2022 21:57 UTC
15 points
2 comments1 min readLW link
(rootsofprogress.org)

Trans­porta­tion as a Constraint

johnswentworth6 Apr 2020 4:58 UTC
176 points
27 comments6 min readLW link1 review

Ob­served pat­terns around ma­jor tech­nolog­i­cal advancements

Richard Korzekwa 3 Feb 2022 0:30 UTC
44 points
15 comments11 min readLW link
(aiimpacts.org)

What is a “philos­o­phy of progress?”

jasoncrawford4 Feb 2022 22:02 UTC
10 points
0 comments2 min readLW link
(rootsofprogress.org)

What would a thriv­ing progress move­ment look like?

jasoncrawford24 Feb 2022 17:58 UTC
27 points
7 comments2 min readLW link
(rootsofprogress.org)

Book re­view: The Dawn of Everything

PeterMcCluskey11 Mar 2022 1:56 UTC
24 points
1 comment7 min readLW link
(www.bayesianinvestor.com)

Wanted: Ex­ec­u­tive As­sis­tant to help build the progress movement

jasoncrawford23 Mar 2022 18:19 UTC
8 points
0 comments1 min readLW link
(rootsofprogress.org)

Fly­wheels of progress

jasoncrawford23 Mar 2022 20:42 UTC
30 points
0 comments4 min readLW link
(rootsofprogress.org)

The lure of technocracy

jasoncrawford31 Mar 2022 19:58 UTC
27 points
13 comments4 min readLW link
(rootsofprogress.org)

Is growth lin­ear, not ex­po­nen­tial?

jasoncrawford20 Apr 2022 18:46 UTC
28 points
8 comments3 min readLW link
(rootsofprogress.org)

Fu­ture of Progress Stud­ies – a meetup with Adam Thierer

jasoncrawford21 Apr 2022 21:34 UTC
7 points
0 comments1 min readLW link

Why “progress stud­ies” is interdisciplinary

jasoncrawford22 Apr 2022 21:58 UTC
12 points
4 comments1 min readLW link
(rootsofprogress.org)

Why pes­simism sounds smart

jasoncrawford25 Apr 2022 20:10 UTC
76 points
15 comments1 min readLW link
(rootsofprogress.org)

What are the best ex­am­ples of catas­trophic re­source short­ages?

jasoncrawford4 May 2022 14:37 UTC
36 points
14 comments5 min readLW link
(rootsofprogress.org)

How cur­ing ag­ing could help progress

jasoncrawford22 May 2022 22:43 UTC
51 points
19 comments1 min readLW link
(rootsofprogress.org)

Can growth con­tinue?

jasoncrawford27 May 2022 16:19 UTC
28 points
22 comments3 min readLW link
(rootsofprogress.org)

Progress links and tweets, 2022-05-30

jasoncrawford30 May 2022 23:20 UTC
18 points
0 comments1 min readLW link
(rootsofprogress.org)

Rein­vent­ing the wheel

jasoncrawford4 Jun 2022 22:39 UTC
78 points
13 comments2 min readLW link
(rootsofprogress.org)

Progress links and tweets, 2022-06-08

jasoncrawford9 Jun 2022 19:13 UTC
11 points
0 comments1 min readLW link
(rootsofprogress.org)

Was the In­dus­trial Revolu­tion The In­dus­trial Revolu­tion?

Davis Kedrosky14 Jun 2022 14:48 UTC
29 points
0 comments12 min readLW link
(daviskedrosky.substack.com)

Progress links and tweets, 2022-06-13

jasoncrawford15 Jun 2022 19:47 UTC
12 points
0 comments1 min readLW link
(rootsofprogress.org)

Progress links and tweets, 2022-06-20

jasoncrawford21 Jun 2022 17:12 UTC
12 points
2 comments1 min readLW link
(rootsofprogress.org)

Progress links and tweets, 2022-06-29

jasoncrawford29 Jun 2022 21:33 UTC
9 points
0 comments1 min readLW link
(rootsofprogress.org)

Wealth as a source of tech­nolog­i­cal stag­na­tion?

alyssavance7 Jul 2022 5:46 UTC
21 points
1 comment3 min readLW link

Progress links and tweets, 2022-07-12

jasoncrawford12 Jul 2022 15:30 UTC
12 points
0 comments1 min readLW link
(rootsofprogress.org)

Launch­ing a new progress in­sti­tute, seek­ing a CEO

jasoncrawford18 Jul 2022 16:58 UTC
25 points
2 comments3 min readLW link
(rootsofprogress.org)

Progress links and tweets, 2022-07-19

jasoncrawford19 Jul 2022 20:50 UTC
11 points
1 comment1 min readLW link
(rootsofprogress.org)

Is the World Get­ting Bet­ter? A brief sum­mary of re­cent debate

ErickBall6 Feb 2019 17:38 UTC
35 points
8 comments2 min readLW link
(capx.co)

For the past, in some ways only, we are moral degenerates

Stuart_Armstrong7 Jun 2019 15:57 UTC
32 points
17 comments2 min readLW link

“What if we could re­design so­ciety from scratch? The promise of char­ter cities.” [Ra­tional An­i­ma­tions video]

Jackson Wagner18 Feb 2024 0:57 UTC
39 points
7 comments1 min readLW link
(www.youtube.com)

Iron: From myth­i­cal to mundane

jasoncrawford24 Oct 2019 22:43 UTC
19 points
8 comments1 min readLW link
(rootsofprogress.org)

An­nounc­ing the SoS Re­search Col­lec­tive for in­de­pen­dent re­searchers (and aca­demics think­ing in­de­pen­dently)

rogersbacon22 Jan 2024 20:13 UTC
15 points
0 comments8 min readLW link
(www.theseedsofscience.pub)

A Pro­posed Ad­just­ment to the Astro­nom­i­cal Waste Argument

Nick_Beckstead27 May 2013 3:39 UTC
35 points
38 comments12 min readLW link

WHO Biolog­i­cal Risk warning

Jonas Kgomo25 Apr 2023 15:10 UTC
−6 points
2 comments1 min readLW link

For progress to be by ac­cu­mu­la­tion and not by ran­dom walk, read great books

MichaelVassar2 Mar 2010 8:11 UTC
75 points
115 comments3 min readLW link

We Live in an Era of Un­prece­dented World Peace

lsusr30 Aug 2021 22:25 UTC
27 points
15 comments1 min readLW link

Is Progress Real?

rogersbacon10 Jan 2023 17:42 UTC
5 points
14 comments14 min readLW link
(www.secretorum.life)

[Question] How do we iden­tify bot­tle­necks to sci­en­tific and tech­nolog­i­cal progress?

NaiveTortoise31 Dec 2018 20:21 UTC
31 points
12 comments2 min readLW link

[Question] The tech left behind

Leafcraft12 Mar 2019 14:47 UTC
25 points
22 comments1 min readLW link

Progress and re­search dis­rup­tive­ness

Eleni Angelou12 Jan 2023 3:51 UTC
3 points
2 comments1 min readLW link
(www.nature.com)

The Triumph of Hu­man­ity Chart

Dias26 Oct 2015 1:41 UTC
30 points
79 comments1 min readLW link

Drain­ing the swamp

jasoncrawford28 Jan 2020 21:37 UTC
97 points
0 comments11 min readLW link
(rootsofprogress.org)

[Question] Weird mod­els of coun­try de­vel­op­ment?

Connor_Flexman22 Sep 2021 17:39 UTC
7 points
7 comments1 min readLW link

The effi­ciency of prizes

lukeprog3 Apr 2012 21:45 UTC
39 points
18 comments2 min readLW link

[Question] What new tech­nol­ogy, for what in­sti­tu­tions?

bhauth14 May 2023 17:33 UTC
29 points
6 comments3 min readLW link

We might need to re­think the Hard Re­set , aka the AI Pause.

Jonas Kgomo30 Mar 2023 21:38 UTC
2 points
0 comments1 min readLW link

1689: Un­cov­er­ing the World New In­sti­tu­tion­al­ism Created

Davis Kedrosky17 Jun 2022 19:32 UTC
7 points
0 comments9 min readLW link
(daviskedrosky.substack.com)

There is no royal road to alignment

Eleni Angelou18 Sep 2022 3:33 UTC
4 points
2 comments3 min readLW link

What if we should use more en­ergy, not less?

Snorkelfarsan16 Oct 2021 19:51 UTC
7 points
12 comments6 min readLW link

The Power of High Speed Stupidity

robotelvis17 Mar 2023 21:41 UTC
32 points
5 comments9 min readLW link
(messyprogress.substack.com)

Progress Stud­ies Fel­low­ship look­ing for members

jay ram6 Jul 2023 17:41 UTC
3 points
0 comments1 min readLW link

Values Darwinism

pchvykov22 Jan 2024 10:44 UTC
11 points
13 comments3 min readLW link

Is the world be­com­ing bet­ter?

invertedpassion6 Feb 2021 9:28 UTC
34 points
7 comments5 min readLW link

[Question] Could Nixon go­ing to China be a cause for the big stag­na­tion?

ChristianKl5 Jul 2020 6:58 UTC
16 points
4 comments1 min readLW link

How to an­a­lyze progress, stag­na­tion, and low-hang­ing fruit

jasoncrawford15 Jun 2020 21:02 UTC
42 points
9 comments4 min readLW link
(rootsofprogress.org)

Why safety is not safe

rwallace14 Jun 2009 5:20 UTC
60 points
118 comments5 min readLW link

Met­ric se­lec­tion bias: why Moore’s law is less im­por­tant than you think

Aaron Bergman8 Feb 2021 0:21 UTC
18 points
10 comments6 min readLW link
(aaronbergman.substack.com)

Study Group for Progress – 50% off for LessWrongers

jasoncrawford3 Sep 2020 0:17 UTC
14 points
2 comments1 min readLW link

Cut­ting edge technology

Elo31 Oct 2017 6:00 UTC
10 points
7 comments2 min readLW link

Notes on Hen­rich’s “The WEIRDest Peo­ple in the World” (2020)

MichaelA14 Feb 2021 8:40 UTC
17 points
0 comments8 min readLW link

An­tag­o­nis­tic AI

Xybermancer1 Mar 2024 18:50 UTC
−8 points
1 comment1 min readLW link

Indig­na­tion in re­sponse to the 1890 census

jasoncrawford8 Sep 2020 20:14 UTC
26 points
1 comment1 min readLW link
(rootsofprogress.org)

Peter Thiel warns of up­com­ing (and cur­rent) stagnation

SilasBarta4 Oct 2011 17:30 UTC
36 points
121 comments2 min readLW link

Progress: Fluke or trend?

jasoncrawford13 Sep 2020 0:21 UTC
16 points
19 comments2 min readLW link
(rootsofprogress.org)

Against the weird­ness heuristic

Eleni Angelou2 Oct 2022 19:41 UTC
17 points
3 comments2 min readLW link

Paper di­ges­tion: “May We Have Your At­ten­tion Please? Hu­man-Rights NGOs and the Prob­lem of Global Com­mu­ni­ca­tion”

Klara Helene Nielsen20 Jul 2023 17:08 UTC
4 points
1 comment2 min readLW link
(journals.sagepub.com)

Can the Chain Still Hold You?

lukeprog13 Jan 2012 1:28 UTC
197 points
361 comments4 min readLW link

The abrupt­ness of nu­clear weapons

paulfchristiano25 Feb 2018 17:40 UTC
47 points
35 comments2 min readLW link

Is the rate of sci­en­tific progress slow­ing down? (by Tyler Cowen and Ben South­wood)

Ben Pace2 Dec 2019 3:45 UTC
49 points
6 comments1 min readLW link
(docs.google.com)

Who or­dered al­ign­ment’s ap­ple?

Eleni Angelou28 Aug 2022 4:05 UTC
6 points
3 comments3 min readLW link

En­light­en­ment Values in a Vuln­er­a­ble World

Maxwell Tabarrok20 Jul 2022 19:52 UTC
15 points
6 comments31 min readLW link
(maximumprogress.substack.com)

The Na­tional Dash­board and Hu­man Progress

maxa15 Apr 2021 19:21 UTC
6 points
3 comments8 min readLW link
(max2c.com)

Jan Bloch’s Im­pos­si­ble War

Slimepriestess17 Feb 2020 16:14 UTC
107 points
30 comments5 min readLW link
(hivewired.wordpress.com)

[Question] What do you think should be in­cluded in a se­ries about con­cep­tual me­dia?

Polytopos31 Dec 2020 1:40 UTC
2 points
5 comments1 min readLW link

[Question] Which sci­en­tific dis­cov­ery was most ahead of its time?

Richard_Ngo16 May 2019 12:58 UTC
38 points
14 comments1 min readLW link

Exegesis

rogersbacon31 Dec 2021 17:48 UTC
9 points
2 comments20 min readLW link
(rogersbacon.substack.com)

The Progress Paradox

Ben Turtel27 Dec 2023 18:26 UTC
3 points
3 comments4 min readLW link
(bturtel.substack.com)

A prior for tech­nolog­i­cal discontinuities

NunoSempere13 Oct 2020 16:51 UTC
71 points
17 comments6 min readLW link

Drexler’s Nan­otech Forecast

PeterMcCluskey30 Jul 2022 0:45 UTC
25 points
28 comments3 min readLW link
(www.bayesianinvestor.com)

Si­mu­la­tion of tech­nolog­i­cal progress (work in progress)

Daniel Kokotajlo10 Feb 2020 20:39 UTC
21 points
9 comments5 min readLW link

[Question] Has a tech­nolog­i­cal de­pen­dency graph been made?

Mati_Roy27 Feb 2020 20:51 UTC
20 points
4 comments1 min readLW link

En­gelbart: In­suffi­ciently Recursive

Eliezer Yudkowsky26 Nov 2008 8:31 UTC
22 points
22 comments7 min readLW link

Were vac­cines rele­vant to 20th cen­tury US mor­tal­ity im­prove­ments?

jasoncrawford10 Dec 2019 0:13 UTC
12 points
7 comments3 min readLW link
(rootsofprogress.org)

The Fourth Arena: What’s Up in the world these days? We’re mov­ing to a new, a new what?

Bill Benzon4 Jun 2022 19:07 UTC
2 points
0 comments3 min readLW link
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