Progress Studies
how do we make progress?
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Progress Studies
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
Research Questions That Could Have a Big Social Impact, Organised by Discipline
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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
a good reminder that all innovation is initially resisted