Less Wrong Budapest July 30th Meetup
post by Richard Horvath · 2022-07-24T19:07:58.854Z · ? · GW · 0 comments2 pm, Sat July 30
At Champs Sziget, a bar on Margit Island
Even though I know that some of the most noise averse amongst us would prefer to avoid sitting in a bar, I'm feeling elderly today, and don't want to be sitting on a blanket again.
The readings for this month are going to be economic history themed, and I would love it if some of you would give me suggestions for what we should read next month -- anything that struck you as interesting, important, or valuable to read.
https://rootsofprogress.org/why-did-we-wait-so-long-for-the-bicycle
A discussion of the difficulties in inventing the bicycle, attempting to answer the century old question of why it took so long for this extremely useful device to be created.
https://braddelong.substack.com/p/70000-years-of-human-economic-growth
A high level overview of economic growth from prehistoric times to present -- feel free to ignore the other links and bits of blogginess.
Anyways, I hope to see you all there and that we'll have a great of conversation.
Tim
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