Link post
The challenge of corrosion and how engineers fight it (YouTube)
Arnold Kling claims that we over-consume medical services in the US
The lessons of Xanadu (on my personal blog)
Has anybody done serious, detailed work on the mechanisms that drive technological s-curves? (@Ben_Reinhardt)
Who are the smartest people working on battery storage? Best writing on the topic? (@juliadewahl)
What are examples of projects getting done really fast by organizations that are normally very slow? (@_brianpotter)
Is there a Thiel Fellowship type program for PhD candidates to bail out of academia? (@tayroga)
“Appeal to nature” fallacies are ethically problematic for progress (thread by @RafaRuizdeLira)
Josh Barro on Matt Yglesias on “induced demand” (@jbarro)
US immigration as an important-but-not-urgent policy disaster (@sama)
The US basically stopped building large-scale water infrastructure in the 1980s (@_brianpotter)
Progress links and tweets, 2022-08-09
Link post
Links
The challenge of corrosion and how engineers fight it (YouTube)
Arnold Kling claims that we over-consume medical services in the US
The lessons of Xanadu (on my personal blog)
Queries
Has anybody done serious, detailed work on the mechanisms that drive technological s-curves? (@Ben_Reinhardt)
Who are the smartest people working on battery storage? Best writing on the topic? (@juliadewahl)
What are examples of projects getting done really fast by organizations that are normally very slow? (@_brianpotter)
Is there a Thiel Fellowship type program for PhD candidates to bail out of academia? (@tayroga)
Tweets & retweets
“Appeal to nature” fallacies are ethically problematic for progress (thread by @RafaRuizdeLira)
Josh Barro on Matt Yglesias on “induced demand” (@jbarro)
US immigration as an important-but-not-urgent policy disaster (@sama)
The US basically stopped building large-scale water infrastructure in the 1980s (@_brianpotter)