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The 7yo imagines “skinny pyramids” that will transport us at 200mph. Sounds good. #ProgressStudies
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Anyone compiling a list of the best ordinary inventions / design improvements of the past few decades needs to include these things. #progressstudies
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Over the next weeks I'll be tweeting about Peter Thiel's Zero to One as I read it w/a few other people interested in #ProgressStudies We're planning to read on this schedule, and hopefully get some of you reading/commenting too! There might or might not be a Zoom call at the end
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From Shahar Avin's thesis, an example of how different disciplines can contribute to improve the institutions of science #progressstudies
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what motivates opposition to technological change and progress? Here are a few of the books I often recommend to those who ask me that question #progressstudies
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"In The Journey of Humanity, @GalorOded offers a revelatory explanation of how humanity escaped a life of subsistence poverty and began to enjoy previously unthinkable wealth and longevity." Pre-Order: https://t.co/LeTbycfp94
#HumanProgress #ProgressStudies 📈
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Gonna learn me some progress cc @Unusual_VC #progressstudies from @abhisharma_b thx to @jordanmcgillis and @cynthiamcgillis for the invite
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Making money abundant: -How crypto uses code to create value + trust -Leads to variable-quality abundance (ICOs) -For "true" abundance, abstract progress itself (#ProgressStudies) -Also, see money transfer wrappers, like Capital-aaS from Shopify, Stripe https://t.co/mbfLZvRTLv
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"Malaria: One of the leading causes of child deaths, but progress is possible and you can contribute to it" - @OurWorldInData #HumanProgress #ProgressStudies 🤬🦟 https://t.co/iYyvYqNLQJ
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Great talks from the #ProgressStudies community last night! @ani_pai talks about tech and sovereignty, @patrickc shares motivations around progress studies 🚀
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"Plagues and famines were abundant, a quarter of babies did not reach their first birthday, women commonly perished during childbirth, and life expectancy rarely exceeded forty years." "The Journey of Humanity: @GalorOded #HumanProgress #ProgressStudies 📈 https://t.co/q2EW7tTw7v
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#ProgressStudies is nice but we really need #RegressStudies. What has driven us to the "Emperor's-New-Clothes" levels of stupidity and anti-civilization messaging that we're seeing today? I would love to be able to model this.
But maybe more urgent than progress studies is "regress studies". What does it take to make a civilization regress and collapse? Are we on that path?
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"The Journey of Humanity: The Origins of Wealth and Inequality", by @GalorOded, just dropped in #audiobook format on Google Play Books. #HumanProgress #ProgressStudies 📈 https://t.co/5EYrA1l2Q8
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#history #economics #progress #progressstudies The Historian Who Thinks #Culture Made #Capitalism
https://t.co/eVLfp07MZe via @YouTube
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Two new #HumanProgress, #ProgressStudies inspired book recommendations, order for pre-release: "What We Owe The Future", by @willmacaskill, and "Superabundance: The Story of Population Growth, Innovation, and Human Flourishing", @gpooley, Marian L. Tupy. https://t.co/4sXCOJUUSw
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