This is a linkpost for https://rootsofprogress.org/links-and-tweets-2022-09-20
Announcements
- PARPA is raising money on Gitcoin (via @Ben_Reinhardt)
- Virginia Postrel is running a contest for positive visions of the future
- Stanford’s Intro to Bioengineering offered for free online to high school students (via @DrewEndy)
Links
- The advantages of the Gutenberg movable type system over Asian predecessors
- Larry Summers gives strong praise to Superabundance (video)
- “In science, consequences for wrongdoing seem rare”
- The Transit Costs Project reports on how Stockholm builds cheaply
- You Will Go to the Moon, a children’s book from 1959 (see my thread)
Queries
- Where is there long-term data for the Bell Labs research budget? (@michael_nielsen)
- Good histories of strain improvement for increasing industrial fermentation output? (@_brianpotter)
- What’s your favorite essay/blog post of all time? (@packyM)
Tweets
- We don’t have a lot of clinical applications of the human genome 20 years after it was sequenced… but couldn’t the same have been said of the germ theory?
- Key points to remember about tradeoffs
- On wartime military R&D around WW1
- Luck and the entrepreneur (or scientist, or inventor)
Retweets
- Cruise robotaxis soon going live in Phoenix and Austin (@olivercameron)
- Can you spot which images are made by AI? (@MichaelTrazzi). I got 17/20, see the clues I used
- Figma (just acquired for $20B) and Ethereum (market cap $180B) are both from Thiel Fellows (@regardthefrost)
- On “closely-knit multi-generational communities” (@made_in_cosmos)
Pics
- Me speaking at the Foresight Institute meetup (via @foresightinst, @thesfcommons, and @StephenGHubbard)
