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Progress links and tweets,
2023-02-08
by
jasoncrawford
8th Feb 2023
rootsofprogress.org
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The Progress Forum
A catalog of big visions for biology
London progress meetup, Feb 25
A Cure for My Cancer
, by Virginia Postrel
Eli Dourado AMA has concluded
Announcements
Metascience event at AEI, Feb 9
(via
@AlecStapp
)
Visa Limbo, a site from IFP tracking visa processing delays
(via
@JeremyLNeufeld
)
OpenAI launches ChatGPT Plus for $20/month
(via
@miramurati
)
Links
Let’s add AP Progress to the high school curriculum
(by
@JimPethokoukis
)
Marc Andreessen on Dwarkesh’s podcast
. Also Dwarkesh now has
paid subscriptions
. And
what should he ask Elad Gil?
A vision for cargo airships
(by
@elidourado
)
This comment convinced me I was wrong: we are not “pre-theory” regarding cancer
NASA, DARPA to test nuclear engine for Mars missions
(via
@elidourado
)
Queries
Is there a directory of all the open-ended grant programs?
Who should Milan Cvitkovic meet in SF?
(@MWCvitkovic)
Who is hiring for robotics roles/internships?
(@momahmood_)
What is the best way to bootstrap an advanced understanding of biology?
(@danielgolliher)
Quotes
The philosophers who told us not to celebrate progress
History is biased to war and politics; progress is relatively neglected
“Scientific management” was the precursor to 20th-century technocracy
The need for ambition, from GH Hardy’s “A Mathematician’s Apology”
(@nabeelqu)
Bacon on lumpers vs. splitters
Tweets
LLMs create a vector space for concepts
We will get many specialized AIs, not a massive centralized Great Brain
People’s work is defined more by their methods than their goals
Retweets
How much more quickly things were done in the 1960s
(@Gilesyb)
ChatGPT as a universal translator
(@YirenLu)
69 of 109 jurisdictions in SFBA now subject to the builder’s remedy
(@Yimby_Law)
“This might be my favorite 1-page philosophy paper”
(@davidalanbuiles)
A hypothesis about things capitalism gets blamed for
(@mbateman)
Charts
Auckland liberalized building rules and housing permits soared
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