Progress Studies
how do we make progress?
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Progress Studies
Louis CK Everything is amazing & Nobody is happy
youtube.comOur metrics of progress have continuously abstracted: from the tangible bushels of wheat in agricultural economies (with natural physical limits), to industrial-era efficiency metrics (units/hour, machine uptime), to the nebulous productivity measures of knowledge work. Each evolution has moved us further from human-scaled, naturally bounded... See more
Tina He • Jevons Paradox: A personal perspective
Higher than the Shoulders of Giants; Or, a Scientist’s History of Drugs
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Research Questions That Could Have a Big Social Impact, Organised by Discipline
80000hours.org80000hours.orgProgress is challenging, not due to a lack of imagination but due to the lack of a blank canvas Maybe Mars is the blank canvas we need to bring us all together