Progress Studies

Progress Studies

how do we make progress?

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Higher than the Shoulders of Giants; Or, a Scientist’s History of Drugs

Slime Mold Time Mold slimemoldtimemold.com

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Malthus was wrong. We make MORE food than ever with LESS land than ever. Because we have one inexhaustible resource— Human ingenuity.

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Welcome to the Future

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Louis CK Everything is amazing & Nobody is happy

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once we had machines to do labor, we could afford to stop treating humans like machines.

Packy McCormick • The Morality of Having Kids in a Magical, Maybe Simulated World

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Progress Isn't Natural

Joel Mokyr theatlantic.com

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Idea Machines

Nadia Asparouhova nadia.xyz

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We Should Be Measuring Well-Being Catalysis, Not (trying and largely failing to measure) Economic Productivity

Ben Goertzel bengoertzel.substack.com

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WTF Happened In 1971?

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