Progress links and tweets, 2023-04-12

jasoncrawford

Progress links and tweets, 2023-04-12

by jasoncrawford

1 min read12th Apr 20232 comments

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Frontpage

This is a linkpost for https://rootsofprogress.org/links-and-tweets-2023-04-12

Opportunities

Nat Friedman wants a researcher/journalist for a short AI/rationalism/x-risk project
A new x-risk research lab is recruiting their first round of fellows (via @panickssery)

Links

A “solutionist” third-way on AI safety from Leopold (or thread version)
Jack Devanney on how “ALARA” makes nuclear energy expensive (via @s8mb). See also my review of Devanney’s book
“Instead of a desk, I would like to have a very large lazy susan in my office” (see also my attempts to visualize a soluion)

Queries

Quotes

Evidence for the human capital theory of the Industrial Revolution

AI tweets & threads

Charts

“One universal in the history of childhood stands above all others. The history of childhood is a history of death”

The Counter-Reformation’s search for heresy was a negative shock to science

As terrible as COVID was, we have progressed a lot in the last 200 years

The survival curve inflates like a sail, but the far end of it doesn’t move much

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[-]Waldvogel1y10

The "New York City's Death Rate" chart is ambiguous to me. Is the red line at 2020 a graphical notation pointing to the current year, or is it a spike in the death rate?