# Progress links and tweets, 2023-02-15

**The Progress Forum**
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*   [AMA: Matt Clancy, Open Philanthropy](https://progressforum.org/posts/LtngrFX72GRoAuEbg/ama-matt-clancy-open-philanthropy)
*   [The Rise of Steel - Part I](https://progressforum.org/posts/wpm8C3HLBoncB8aXJ/the-rise-of-steel-part-i), by Brian Potter

**Opportunities**
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*   [Sloan Foundation offering $75k–250k grants for history of science, technology, economics, and social science](https://sloan.org/grants/open-calls/history-loi) (via [@SloanFoundation](https://twitter.com/SloanFoundation/status/1620788525951229953) and [@epistemographer](https://twitter.com/epistemographer/status/1612552633520394240))
*   [Our World in Data is hiring a Human Resources Manager](https://ourworldindata.org/human-resources-manager) (via [@OurWorldInData](https://twitter.com/OurWorldInData/status/1623252339971817473))
*   [Virginia Postrel wants stories about progress in materials, and writers to tell them](https://twitter.com/vpostrel/status/1624241762784153603)

**Links**
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*   [Video: Works in Progress interviews leaders of ARIA (the “UK DARPA”)](https://worksinprogress.co/issue/aria-betting-on-science) (via [@s8mb](https://twitter.com/s8mb/status/1624089534437765131))
*   [In 1858, *The Atlantic* published a poem about the telegraph](https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/1858/10/the-telegraph/627378/) (via [@LouisAnslow](https://twitter.com/LouisAnslow/status/1624046343424540672))
*   [Tyler Cowen on LLMs: “We are going to have a whole new set of channels”](https://marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2023/02/llms-and-censorship.html)
*   [“Regulation provides the fulcrum but it’s interest groups that man the lever”](https://marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2023/02/klein-on-construction.html)
*   [Interferon λ cuts covid risk by ~50% (but the FDA won’t let you have it)](https://thezvi.substack.com/p/covid-2922-interferon)
*   [LessWrong 2021 Review](https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/P5dSmXmoAAdkeZ4xa/prizes-for-the-2021-review). I got a bronze prize for my [history of factory safety](https://rootsofprogress.org/history-of-factory-safety), and honorable mentions for book reviews on [nuclear power](https://rootsofprogress.org/devanney-on-the-nuclear-flop) and [Andrew Carnegie](https://rootsofprogress.org/andrew-carnegie-autobiography)

**Quotes**
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*   [When carriages were a culture-war issue](https://twitter.com/jasoncrawford/status/1624236771306266625)
*   [Agriculture as a governance problem](https://twitter.com/jasoncrawford/status/1622594428723425281)

**Tweets & retweets**
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*   [A review of *Seeing Like a State* in six tweets](https://twitter.com/jasoncrawford/status/1622980625291481088)
*   [“Megaprojects breed extraction,” and other lessons from the Second Avenue Subway](https://twitter.com/ericgoldwyn/status/1622762198392049665)
*   [“Biden admin is determined to make infrastructure spending more expensive”](https://twitter.com/ModeledBehavior/status/1622680315419365376)
*   [Imagine living in San Francisco in the 1930s](https://twitter.com/camwiese/status/1622777097742876673)
*   [An 1813 locomotive prototype used mechanical legs to push itself along the ground](https://twitter.com/jasoncrawford/status/1623756727438000135)

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