This is a linkpost for https://rootsofprogress.org/links-and-tweets-2023-01-04
Progress Forum
- Building Fast and Slow Part III: Design of the World Trade Center (Brian Potter)
- Why pessimism sounds smart (a oldie by yours truly)
Announcements
Tweets
- One container ship carries more than the whole English fleet did 440 years ago. Also: “What, load boxes ashore and then load the boxes on the ship?”
- “A fully general argument against ever doing anything that changes anything, ever”
- Sometimes giving someone a book changes the course of their life
Retweets
- “We already have the tools to preserve brains fantastically well”
- So many of the world’s great infrastructure projects would be impossible today
- The 1930 campaign to stop people from listening to recorded music
- Who are some good, interesting, up-and-coming, not-yet-famous essayists/bloggers?
- ChatGPT can correct OCR errors in historical texts
- California court rules that economic growth as such is an environmental harm (!)
- A rapid combo test for covid, flu and RSV. Unfortunately illegal in the US
