jasoncrawford(Jason Crawford)

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Founder, The Roots of Progress (rootsofprogress.org). Part-time tech consultant, Our World in Data. Former software engineering manager and tech startup founder.

What is progress?

jasoncrawford9 Mar 2024 16:28 UTC

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Why you, personally, should want a larger human population

jasoncrawford23 Feb 2024 19:48 UTC

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Making every researcher seek grants is a broken model

jasoncrawford26 Jan 2024 16:06 UTC

150 points

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

jasoncrawford4 Jan 2024 19:33 UTC

28 points

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The Roots of Progress 2023 in review

jasoncrawford31 Dec 2023 18:16 UTC

22 points

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Progress links digest, 2023-12-29: Rayleigh’s oil drop experiment and more

jasoncrawford29 Dec 2023 16:22 UTC

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

jasoncrawford15 Dec 2023 15:52 UTC

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Accelerating science through evolvable institutions

jasoncrawford4 Dec 2023 23:21 UTC

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

jasoncrawford29 Nov 2023 18:30 UTC

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

jasoncrawford28 Nov 2023 16:04 UTC

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

jasoncrawford24 Nov 2023 15:25 UTC

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

jasoncrawford8 Nov 2023 2:05 UTC

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What I’ve been reading, November 2023

jasoncrawford7 Nov 2023 13:37 UTC

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

jasoncrawford13 Oct 2023 0:41 UTC

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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

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

jasoncrawford8 Sep 2023 17:48 UTC

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What I’ve been reading, September 2023

jasoncrawford6 Sep 2023 9:32 UTC

17 points

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

jasoncrawford1 Sep 2023 4:33 UTC

12 points

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

jasoncrawford17 Aug 2023 20:29 UTC

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What does it mean to “trust science”?

jasoncrawford16 Aug 2023 14:56 UTC

34 points

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