Founder, The Roots of Progress (rootsofprogress.org). Part-time tech consultant, Our World in Data. Former software engineering manager and tech startup founder.
jasoncrawford(Jason Crawford)
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Announcing the incoming CEO for The Roots of Progress
Progress links and tweets, 2022-11-29
Progress links and tweets, 2022-11-22
I will continue to cross-post most of my blog posts to LW, but the forums will evolve separate user bases and content bases.
Thanks Ben! The critiques of progress from the EA/x-risk community have been the most thoughtful, well-informed, and difficult to answer of all the ones I’ve heard. In the spirit of epistemic humility, I invite you to keep up the criticism.
Announcing the Progress Forum
Maybe! Although see this: https://slatestarcodex.com/2019/04/22/1960-the-year-the-singularity-was-cancelled/
When should we be surprised that an invention took “so long”?
Progress links and tweets, 2022-11-15
Agree about tradeoffs.
Why do you think that “untouched” nature is a value “in itself”?
Should we “go against nature”?
Fixed, thanks!
Progress links and tweets, 2022-11-01
Progress links and tweets, 2022-10-12
From technocracy to the counterculture
I enjoyed this, thanks. (But, it’s hard to believe that in all those years they haven’t just made anti-aging technology, so you don’t have to reset every ~70 years…)
I’ve thought of writing a similar premise, but it involved an active checkpointing step where you get a brain scan, like a save point in a video game, and it only reset your memories and psychology, not your whole body. My first thought was that people would do extreme sports like climbing very dangerous cliffs without ropes, just checkpointing first and knowing they could easily reset if they died.
It took some dedicated developer effort but not an enormous amount. “Easy” is probably too strong a term!