Progress Studies
how do we make progress?
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Progress Studies
(1) New Working Paper: the fundamental driver of growth in modern economies, Total Factor Productivity (TFP), is linear, not exponential.
This is a paper I did not expect to write...
Thomas Philippontwitter.com
Fireside Chat: A Plan for Humanity with Bryan Johnson
youtube.comProgress 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
Tim Urban • #264 - Tim Urban: Elon Musk, Neuralink, AI, Aliens, and the Future of Humanity | Lex Fridman Podcast
Progress is mostly about what does not happen. Progress means a 92-year-old who did not die today, a boy who was not robbed on his way to school, a 12-year girl who is not married to a 30-year old man, etc. What did not happen does not make the news. The best parts of civilization don’t get headlined.
Kevin Kelly • 💡 Kevin Kelly: The Case for Optimism
Malthus was wrong.
We make MORE food than ever with LESS land than ever. Because we have one inexhaustible resource—
Human ingenuity.
"Almost without exception, everything society has considered a social advance has been prefigured first in some utopian writing." -David L. Cooperrider
