# Progress links and tweets, 2023-06-28: “We can do big things again in Pennsylvania”

**Opportunities**
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*   [AI Grant’s second batch is now accepting applications](https://aigrant.org/) (via [@natfriedman](https://twitter.com/natfriedman/status/1671966899511652352))
*   [Longevity Biotech Fellowship 2 is also accepting applications](https://twitter.com/LBF_org/status/1663658928956391424) (via [@allisondman](https://twitter.com/allisondman/status/1671285628502257665))
*   [Science writing office hours with Niko McCarty](https://twitter.com/NikoMcCarty/status/1671200331387088900) (this one over but more in the future)

**News & links**
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*   [I-95 reopened](https://twitter.com/GovernorShapiro/status/1672289495310532608) in just 12 days after a section of it collapsed. Gov. Shapiro says this proves “[that we can do big things again in Pennsylvania](https://twitter.com/GovernorShapiro/status/1672270597424832515)”
*   [Arcadia Science will publish their abandoned projects](https://www.arcadiascience.com/blog/icebox) (via [@stuartbuck1](https://twitter.com/stuartbuck1/status/1671656253691424771))
*   [Short interview with the Hiroshima bombing mission lead](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pXYiTqLHEjU) (via [@michael_nielsen](https://twitter.com/michael_nielsen/status/1672819958508843010))

**Queries**
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*   [When was the last time a positive vision of the future took hold?](https://twitter.com/krishnanrohit/status/1672992858620534786)
*   [What should Tyler Cowen ask Paul Graham?](https://marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2023/06/what-should-i-ask-paul-graham.html)
*   [What should Dwarkesh Patel ask Andy Matuschak?](https://twitter.com/dwarkesh_sp/status/1670877677224611840)
*   [Who should Eric Gilliam meet in/near London?](https://twitter.com/eric_is_weird/status/1671199811150786562)
*   [How do airlines pool information / make agreements on safety and avoid antitrust?](https://twitter.com/michael_nielsen/status/1673098165770412034)
*   [A FAQ that addresses the arguments/concerns of vaccine skeptics?](https://twitter.com/jasoncrawford/status/1671518584319737858)

**Quotes**
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*   [“I wonder that the Lord God has kept such things hidden”](https://twitter.com/jasoncrawford/status/1670816940028317696)
*   [“The Flat Iron is to the United States what the Parthenon was to Greece”](https://twitter.com/jasoncrawford/status/1672990482882871299)
*   [The terrible treatment of the girls who worked in the Bryant and May match factory](https://twitter.com/jasoncrawford/status/1673031000480264192)

**AI risk**
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*   [Claim: now is an “acute risk period” that only ends with a “global immune system”](https://twitter.com/davidad/status/1671219752918712323)
*   [Concerns about AI are warranted, but there are very valid counter-arguments](https://twitter.com/Altimor/status/1672240946254159873)
*   [An AI doom syllogism](https://twitter.com/jasoncrawford/status/1671570626736447488)
*   [On the paper “Optimal Policies Tend to Seek Power”](https://twitter.com/jasoncrawford/status/1670864451891781632)

**Tweets**
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*   [Gear teeth are *way* more nuanced than you would expect](https://twitter.com/jasoncrawford/status/1672234177238913030)
*   [A brief thread of wonder at the modern world](https://twitter.com/m_ashcroft/status/1670903564074467337)
*   [Staying up to date on news by tracking prediction markets](https://twitter.com/RichardMCNgo/status/1672651544574009344)
*   [Floor raisers vs. ceiling raisers](https://twitter.com/mbateman/status/1671553880046571520)
*   [Induction vs. deduction / empiricism vs. rationalism are the falsest dichotomies](https://twitter.com/jasoncrawford/status/1670812939400380417)
*   [What someone’s unwillingness to debate says about their position](https://twitter.com/BenBayer/status/1670773521306341376)
*   [“How easy is it for a kid to operate a lemonade stand?” as a city metric](https://twitter.com/_TamaraWinter/status/1673041937404772352). Kennett Square, PA and [Tooele, UT](https://twitter.com/cboyack/status/1673041898540515328) score well
*   [A 13-story, 245-unit timber high rise that would be illegal to build in the US](https://twitter.com/seanjurs/status/1672594925047754752)
*   [Postel’s law for feedback](https://twitter.com/jasoncrawford/status/1671618184305160192)
*   [Things that “made the modern world,” according to book titles](https://twitter.com/jasoncrawford/status/1672344491355676673)
*   [“You can count on coal!” (1952)](https://twitter.com/jasoncrawford/status/1672654657510948864)

[![](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FzZ0m9qXwAAq93W.jpg)](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FzZ0m9qXwAAq93W.jpg)

*   [America’s worst nightmare according to *Popular Mechanics*, 2004](https://twitter.com/moreisdifferent/status/1671579602953568256)

[![](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FzKj-XpX0AATq9l.png)](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FzKj-XpX0AATq9l.png)

**Charts**
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*   [For Juneteenth, the progress of black Americans in wealth per capita](https://twitter.com/jmhorp/status/1670775682694098948)

[![](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Fy_JoSyWAAINlry.jpg)](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Fy_JoSyWAAINlry.jpg)

*   [Death rates from “external causes”](https://twitter.com/salonium/status/1672708789127069696)

[![](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Fzanx5uWIAAMDm8.jpg)](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Fzanx5uWIAAMDm8.jpg)