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
Lex Fridmanlexfridman.com
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!
Tom So and
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...
Our metrics of progress have continuously abstracted: from the tangible bushels of wheat in agricultural economies (with natural physical limits), to industrial-era efficiency metrics (units/hour, machine uptime), to the nebulous productivity measures of knowledge work. Each evolution has moved us further from human-scaled, naturally bounded... See more
Tina He • Jevons Paradox: A personal perspective
Factfulness: Ten Reasons We're Wrong About the World--and Why Things Are Better Than You Think
Hans Rosling • 6 highlights
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