Progress Studies

how do we make progress?

sari and

Why We Stopped Making Einsteins

Erik Hoel erikhoel.substack.com

Lillian Sheng

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

Ben Goertzel bengoertzel.substack.com

sari

In 2010, people still thought the main application of mobile was coupons. @yishan set them straight.

Balaji

twitter.com

sari

"Almost without exception, everything society has considered a social advance has been prefigured first in some utopian writing." -David L. Cooperrider

rob hardy

A Simple Plan to Solve All of America’s Problems

Derek Thompson theatlantic.com

Tom So and

Progress 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

sari

anyone who prioritizes the wellbeing of the “future of humanity” in the abstract over the dignity and care of individuals in the present cannot claim that they truly care about people

Ashley • Tweet

rob hardy

The Death of Intellectual Curiosity

Sven Schnieders unfashionable.blog

sari

What is Technology? — Letters to a Young Technologist

Saffron Huang letterstoayoungtechnologist.com

Tanuj