Link post
Building Fast and Slow Part III: Design of the World Trade Center (Brian Potter)
Why pessimism sounds smart (a oldie by yours truly)
Foresight Institute has a spot for a J1 visa in San Francisco in 2023 (@allisondman)
One container ship carries more than the whole English fleet did 440 years ago. Also: “What, load boxes ashore and then load the boxes on the ship?”
“A fully general argument against ever doing anything that changes anything, ever”
Sometimes giving someone a book changes the course of their life
“We already have the tools to preserve brains fantastically well”
So many of the world’s great infrastructure projects would be impossible today
The 1930 campaign to stop people from listening to recorded music
Who are some good, interesting, up-and-coming, not-yet-famous essayists/bloggers?
ChatGPT can correct OCR errors in historical texts
California court rules that economic growth as such is an environmental harm (!)
A rapid combo test for covid, flu and RSV. Unfortunately illegal in the US
Progress links and tweets, 2023-01-04
Link post
Progress Forum
Building Fast and Slow Part III: Design of the World Trade Center (Brian Potter)
Why pessimism sounds smart (a oldie by yours truly)
Announcements
Foresight Institute has a spot for a J1 visa in San Francisco in 2023 (@allisondman)
Tweets
One container ship carries more than the whole English fleet did 440 years ago. Also: “What, load boxes ashore and then load the boxes on the ship?”
“A fully general argument against ever doing anything that changes anything, ever”
Sometimes giving someone a book changes the course of their life
Retweets
“We already have the tools to preserve brains fantastically well”
So many of the world’s great infrastructure projects would be impossible today
The 1930 campaign to stop people from listening to recorded music
Who are some good, interesting, up-and-coming, not-yet-famous essayists/bloggers?
ChatGPT can correct OCR errors in historical texts
California court rules that economic growth as such is an environmental harm (!)
A rapid combo test for covid, flu and RSV. Unfortunately illegal in the US