Progress Studies
how do we make progress?
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Progress Studies
#264 - Tim Urban: Elon Musk, Neuralink, AI, Aliens, and the Future of Humanity | Lex Fridman Podcast
Tim Urbanlexfridman.com
My current favorite theory about what's gone wrong since the 1970s is that we stopped innovating to maximize performance and started optimizing for energy (and resource) efficiency.
Imagine all the cool shit we're gonna build once we have abundant sources of clean energy...
Takes that aged badly: see this from 1937 the problem with our modern world is all of these newfangled toilets and umbrellas get rid of the books!
do you ever find it weird that as a culture we decided that “progress” just means advancement in technology and numbers on a spreadsheet,
and that things like moral advancement, human joy, positive relationships, fulfillment, psychological development, and purpose don’t count?
River Dakinix.comonce 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
Higher than the Shoulders of Giants; Or, a Scientist’s History of Drugs
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