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Progress links and tweets, 2023-01-25

by jasoncrawford
25th Jan 2023
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The Progress Forum

  • Tyler Cowen AMA is now done, read dozens of answers
  • Vitalik on science, his philanthropy, progress and effective altruism
  • On Eli Dourado’s “Heretical Thoughts on AI”

Announcements

  • AllSearch.ai: “Google Books on steroids” (@dwarkesh_sp)
  • Our World in Data is hiring a data scientist (via @MaxCRoser)

Links

  • Zvi on gas stoves: ruining Nice Things for “marginally better health”
  • A link from last week’s digest on quantum computing is probably bogus

Queries

  • What is the case that ~4° C of warming by 2100 will be far worse for the world?
  • What is the earliest technology where most users had no idea how it worked?
  • Why is the learning curve on corn linear and not exponential?

Quotes

  • The insane power potential of nanotech motors. See also the intro to Nanosystems
  • “Don’t send that railway through our town! … Wait, build us a branch line!”
  • There are no “natural” resources
  • The dose determines the poison

Tweets and retweets

  • My hypothesis about Solow’s computer productivity paradox
  • One blast furnace produces ~170x more iron than all of England in 1720
  • Stuart Buck’s grandfather hoped he would grow up to “get an indoors job”
  • Satellite photo of anywhere on Earth for as little as $175 ($7/km2!)
  • We had supersonic jets, lunar landers & nuclear reactors in the 1970s. We lost our way
  • A nuclear design has finally received NRC certification after 6 years
  • Skyscrapers used to be Art Deco and neo-Gothic, what happened? (@culturaltutor)
  • The Hardiman, one of the earliest exoskeleton designs