Progress Studies

how do we make progress?

Building a 21st century interface for science

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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.

Josh Wolfe

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Why We Stopped Making Einsteins

Erik Hoel erikhoel.substack.com

Lillian Sheng

Fireside Chat: A Plan for Humanity with Bryan Johnson

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Juan Orbea

Curate the Internet, Comprehend the World: Introducing Startupy

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You and Your Research

Richard W. Hamming cs.virginia.edu

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I Ask Seven Heretical Questions About Progress

Ted Gioia open.substack.com

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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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Consider one more possibility: that the people who seem to slow us down and hold us back are actually preventing things from happening too fast. Imagine that the evolution of your life or our culture is like a pregnancy: It needs to reach its full term. Just as a child isn’t ready to be born after five months of gestation, the New Earth we’re

Rob Brezsny • Pronoia Is the Antidote for Paranoia

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