Progress Studies

how do we make progress?

sari and

"Futurism tells us more about the present than the future" --@mattwridley nails it

Ben Reinhardt twitter.com

Tanuj

phoebe

Curate the Internet, Comprehend the World: Introducing Startupy

Tom White whitenoise.email

Tom White

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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

twitter.com

andrea

Is Science Slowing Down?

Scott Alexander (slatestarcodex)slatestarcodex.com

Johanna

Is America Really Running Out of Original Ideas?

Derek Thompson theatlantic.com

(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 Philippon twitter.com

Johanna

We Should Be Measuring Well-Being Catalysis, Not (trying and largely failing to measure) Economic Productivity

Ben Goertzel bengoertzel.substack.com

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