Progress Studies
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Progress Studies
Why did agriculture mechanize and not construction?
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WTF Happened In 1971?
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"Almost without exception, everything society has considered a social advance has been prefigured first in some utopian writing." -David L. Cooperrider
Governments sporadically got things spectacularly wrong. In 1865, the rail and horse-drawn carriage lobbies in the U.K. drummed up enough outrage to pass the Locomotive Act, whose most notable feature was an absurd requirement that a man walk in front of any self-propelled vehicle waving a red flag and blowing a horn. It stunted the U.K. automobile... See more
Matt Boulos • Towards guardrails, not guidelines: a policy framework for powerful AI systems
