jasoncrawford(Jason Crawford)

Progress links and tweets, 2022-08-17

• jasoncrawford 17 Aug 2022 3:28 UTC

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  in reply to: Dagon’s comment on: Against pop­u­la­tion ethics

  I may have mistitled it.

  But I don’t think I’m against universal or objective ethics? Depends how you define those terms.

  I’m not sure what it means for people to be “morally homogeneous” or what “non-indexical preference” means.

• jasoncrawford 17 Aug 2022 3:26 UTC

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  in reply to: tailcalled’s comment on: Against pop­u­la­tion ethics

  Maybe! I am not a utilitarian. And while there are some things that appeal to me about consequentialism, I don’t think I’m a consequentialist either.

• jasoncrawford 17 Aug 2022 3:24 UTC

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  in reply to: Jack Malde’s comment on: Against pop­u­la­tion ethics

  Yes, of course I would take that into account. For the child’s sake as well as mine.

  I don’t see how that constitutes engaging in population ethics. Unless you are using a very broad definition of “population ethics.” (Maybe the definition I was working with was too narrow.)

• jasoncrawford 17 Aug 2022 3:23 UTC

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  in reply to: Charlie Steiner’s comment on: Against pop­u­la­tion ethics

  I don’t understand which views you are attributing to me, which to population ethicists, and which to people in general? Do you think I am claiming not to have preferences about the future? (That’s not right.) Or what exactly? Sorry, I’m confused.

Against pop­u­la­tion ethics

• jasoncrawford 10 Aug 2022 23:57 UTC

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  in reply to: MakoYass’s comment on: The les­sons of Xanadu

  The only thing I remember about Wave was that it was a collaboration tool, but it was in private beta, and when I got in, I couldn’t invite others to the private beta to collaborate with them. So I poked around a bit and then never came back to it. I suspect many others had the same issue.

  Sometimes projects are killed not for deep reasons but just from simple, basic execution failures.

Progress links and tweets, 2022-08-09

• jasoncrawford 8 Aug 2022 16:10 UTC

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  in reply to: cubefox’s comment on: The les­sons of Xanadu

  Well, as far as I can tell, even the electromechanical computers of the 1930s were not significantly faster than humans using mechanical calculators. That’s why I don’t think it would have worked in Babbage’s day. More details in the middle of this essay https://​​rootsofprogress.org/​​epistemic-standards-for-why-it-took-so-long

• jasoncrawford 8 Aug 2022 5:14 UTC

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  in reply to: cubefox’s comment on: The les­sons of Xanadu

  But it seems plausible today that his project could well have succeeded at the time…

  I don’t think so. Several computing machines were prototyped in the early 20th century, and none of them really took off until they were made fully electronic (ENIAC). Any system with moving parts is just too slow to be of practical interest.

The les­sons of Xanadu

Progress links and tweets, 2022-08-02

Progress links and tweets, 2022-07-27

Tech­noc­racy and the Space Age

• jasoncrawford 20 Jul 2022 19:01 UTC

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  in reply to: Edmund Nelson’s comment on: Launch­ing a new progress in­sti­tute, seek­ing a CEO

  CEO is the only role we’re actively hiring for right now, but in time we’ll need event planners, community managers, a fellowship program manager, media/​PR, and similar roles. And of course we’ll need writers for the fellowship program.

Progress links and tweets, 2022-07-19

Launch­ing a new progress in­sti­tute, seek­ing a CEO

High­lights from the mem­o­irs of Van­nevar Bush

Progress links and tweets, 2022-07-12

Progress links and tweets, 2022-06-29