Progress Forum @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 progressforum.org Joined November 2022-
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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: progressforum.org/posts/ynCuQtJv…
“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 progressforum.org/posts/evPDWGde…
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: progressforum.org/posts/zsLm9o6c…
“Is there a future where eventually the whole world is part of NATO?” What if NATO became a world government? by Elle Griffin progressforum.org/posts/mqEDPvtS…
“In one sense, the concept of progress is simple, straightforward, and uncontroversial. In another sense, it contains an entire worldview” @jasoncrawford What is progress? progressforum.org/posts/fBqejBdA…
“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: progressforum.org/posts/ovRuKhdE…
“Exceptional educations do not mean we have to choose between brilliance and happiness. The key is autonomy” @HenryEOliver How to raise a (happy) genius: progressforum.org/posts/pPRguB92…
“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: progressforum.org/posts/HRpvRZEw…
“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: progressforum.org/posts/LMCv6tuT…
“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? progressforum.org/posts/ZBbSbvhH…
Event, Feb 29: “Towards a New Philosophy of Progress” in Boston and on Zoom progressforum.org/posts/rvp5siJj…
“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? progressforum.org/posts/iLap2kC2…
“The City That Can’t. That’s a helluva far cry from the city’s official motto, ‘Gold in Peace, Iron in War.’” @RyanPuzycki progressforum.org/posts/ZgtnnwmJ…
“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: progressforum.org/posts/yfQi7Zrn…
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: progressforum.org/posts/fMLE8cx6…
“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: progressforum.org/posts/PBRxjaWB…
“If life is better than ever before, why does the world seem so depressing?” The Seven Laws of Declinism, by @mboudry progressforum.org/posts/in8Svcf9…
“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: progressforum.org/posts/SB7Jzqj5…
“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: progressforum.org/posts/sdh4GhWq…
“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: progressforum.org/posts/qPEJ8YLx…
Jason Crawford @jasoncrawford
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Andrew Miller @AndrewMillerYYZ
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