Progress links and tweets, 2023-02-01
post by jasoncrawford · 2023-02-02T02:25:21.021Z · LW · GW · 0 commentsThis is a link post for https://rootsofprogress.org/links-and-tweets-2023-02-01
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The Progress Forum Announcements Links Quotes Retweets None No comments
The Progress Forum
- Eli Dourado AMA (lots of great questions and detailed answers!)
- When did England start seeing itself as a commercial nation? (Anton Howes)
- The progress movement could use some explicit cause areas
Announcements
- New book on factors affecting medical progress (via @markkhurana)
- ARIA, the ARPA of the UK, now legally exists and has a budget (via @logangraham)
Links
- Medieval peasants likely did not work fewer hours than we do (via @jmhorp)
- “Do-it-yourself crafts only exist when you no longer have to do everything yourself”
- Oklo has submitted a plan for a nuclear fuel recycling facility (via @oklo)
- Our World in Data topic page on Democracy (via @bbherre)
- “The whole saga feels to me like it’s part of a climate politics of sacrifice”
Quotes
- The amazing progress in Asian agriculture in the late 20th century
- A brilliant passage from John McPhee’s The Control of Nature
Retweets
- A lot of public health pronouncements don’t take into account that people enjoy things
- If you want to see a progress studies community on Hive.one, nominate it here
- A 1931 article on the potential for rocket-based passenger travel (@1517fund)
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