This is a linkpost for https://rootsofprogress.org/links-and-tweets-2023-02-15
The Progress Forum
- AMA: Matt Clancy, Open Philanthropy
- The Rise of Steel - Part I, by Brian Potter
Opportunities
- Sloan Foundation offering $75k–250k grants for history of science, technology, economics, and social science (via @SloanFoundation and @epistemographer)
- Our World in Data is hiring a Human Resources Manager (via @OurWorldInData)
- Virginia Postrel wants stories about progress in materials, and writers to tell them
Links
- Video: Works in Progress interviews leaders of ARIA (the “UK DARPA”) (via @s8mb)
- In 1858, The Atlantic published a poem about the telegraph (via @LouisAnslow)
- Tyler Cowen on LLMs: “We are going to have a whole new set of channels”
- “Regulation provides the fulcrum but it’s interest groups that man the lever”
- Interferon λ cuts covid risk by ~50% (but the FDA won’t let you have it)
- LessWrong 2021 Review. I got a bronze prize for my history of factory safety, and honorable mentions for book reviews on nuclear power and Andrew Carnegie
Quotes
Tweets & retweets
- A review of Seeing Like a State in six tweets
- “Megaprojects breed extraction,” and other lessons from the Second Avenue Subway
- “Biden admin is determined to make infrastructure spending more expensive”
- Imagine living in San Francisco in the 1930s
- An 1813 locomotive prototype used mechanical legs to push itself along the ground
