Progress Forum

The online home for the progress community. Featuring long-form discussion of progress studies and the philosophy of progress. A project of @rootsofprogress

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“In terms of increasing human flourishing for those alive today, increasing progress is just one, among many tools, and certainly not the one with the most low-hanging fruit”

Why I Don't Identify with the Progress Studies Community, by Daniel Frank:

https://t.co/EgNBbgKPb8

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“What if our constitution was a Wikipedia page that any of us could edit, and trusted editors could then incorporate those edits as it made sense?”

What if government worked like Wikipedia? by Elle Griffin

https://t.co/4xuOPoZ7yZ

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ChatGPT is “a lazy, lying, moralist midwit. Everything it writes is full of nauseating cliche and it frequently refuses to do something you know it can do” @MTabarrok

Claude vs GPT:

https://t.co/zILoxV2O4J

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“Is there a future where eventually the whole world is part of NATO?”

What if NATO became a world government? by Elle Griffin

https://t.co/Kw3qTWh0MA

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“In one sense, the concept of progress is simple, straightforward, and uncontroversial. In another sense, it contains an entire worldview” @jasoncrawford

What is progress?

https://t.co/83yzV7JeNh

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“The FDA’s failures merit a complete overhaul: Remove efficacy requirements and keep only basic safety testing and ingredient verification” @MTabarrok

We Need Major, But Not Radical, FDA Reform:

https://t.co/rxIDNUCG4v

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“Exceptional educations do not mean we have to choose between brilliance and happiness. The key is autonomy” @HenryEOliver

How to raise a (happy) genius:

https://t.co/IF5jsMZB8A

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“The ideal human population is not ‘much smaller,’ but ‘ever larger.’ … A world with a large and growing population is a dynamic world that can create and sustain progress” @jasoncrawford

Why you, personally, should want a larger human population:

https://t.co/07gdVQuViS

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“The morass of incentives and agents that make up government do not aggregate into a social welfare maximizer” @MTabarrok

Don't Endorse the Idea of Market Failure:

https://t.co/qjsVIG6rIG

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“Nobody really took idea of one billion Americans *literally*. In all the podcasts and book reviews, nobody thought to ask, ‘what would the American economy look like with 1 billion people?’” @harsimony

How Rich Would 1 Billion Americans Be?

https://t.co/WnsDzVo470

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Event, Feb 29: “Towards a New Philosophy of Progress” in Boston and on Zoom

https://t.co/l7wOxgWrGr

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“Should text on the internet have longer or shorter copyright than text in books in the 16th century? I'm honestly not sure, but I suspect modern copyright is far too long” @MTabarrok

When Should Copyright Get Shorter?

https://t.co/M8ntq6X4Dz

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“The City That Can’t. That’s a helluva far cry from the city’s official motto, ‘Gold in Peace, Iron in War.’” @RyanPuzycki

https://t.co/Dbay5arW7P

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“A critical failure mode in many discussions of technological risk is the assumption that maintaining status quo for technology would lead to maintaining the status quo for society” @davidmanheim

Safe Stasis Fallacy:

https://t.co/fLVBs35yrh

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The world is changing, and current institutions are ill suited to the changes. “We need better institutions. … It’s up to us to build a better future for ourselves and our ancestors” @MarkLutter

The increasing importance of coordination:

https://t.co/dcBKTersJY

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“I can see some plausible futures where my investments in research, writing, and thinking are moot, and some where they are invaluable but I’m not sure which is more likely” @MTabarrok

Practicing my Handwriting in 1439:

https://t.co/qp6oeg5yZL

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“If life is better than ever before, why does the world seem so depressing?”

The Seven Laws of Declinism, by @mboudry

https://t.co/VKqCWf4pEh

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“Funding should go in a single block to a relatively large research organization… This is how some of the most effective, transformative labs in the world have been organized” @jasoncrawford

Making every researcher seek grants is a broken model:

https://t.co/FsApMc1rV5

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“Surgery has at least all of the market challenges that harry pharmaceuticals and it doesn’t have an FDA. Yet, it still muddles through” @MTabarrok

Surgery Works Well Without The FDA:

https://t.co/gcys0yyubC

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“Our instinctual rush to criticize is itself symptomatic of our cultural malaise, that feeling of futility….” California Forever “strikes at the heart of that malaise” @RyanPuzycki

California Whatever? Scoffing Is Easy, Building Is Harder:

https://t.co/cjiiQTG4Cj