# Progress links and tweets, 2023-06-07

**Announcements & opportunities**
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*   [UK Great Stagnation summit in July, apply to attend](https://civicfuture.org/event/the-great-stagnation-summit-2023/) (via [@s8mb](https://twitter.com/s8mb/status/1664314999571984384))
*   [Help Bryan Bishop create an enzyme that makes DNA based on digital instructions](https://twitter.com/kanzure/status/1665065669157703680)
*   [The Cybersecurity Grant Program, $1M for AI-based cybersecurity](https://openai.com/blog/openai-cybersecurity-grant-program) (from [@OpenAI](https://twitter.com/OpenAI/status/1664317616771710976))
*   [Foundations & Frontiers, a magazine about future technologies](https://contrary.com/foundations-and-frontiers/vision) (via [@annasofialesiv](https://twitter.com/annasofialesiv/status/1663971004862042112))

**Links**
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*   [An dig through the Extropian archives](https://www.maximumprogress.org/extropia-archaeology) (via [@ATabarrok](https://twitter.com/ATabarrok/status/1663588571960205312))
*   [Orwell against progress](https://marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2023/06/orwell-against-progress.html)
*   [“Coasean democracy” is the solution to Britain’s sclerosis](https://www.sambowman.co/p/democracy-is-the-solution-to-vetocracy) (by [@s8mb](https://twitter.com/s8mb/status/1664610924718587904))

**Queries**
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*   [Is there a good summary of all the different proposals for how to regulate AI?](https://twitter.com/jasoncrawford/status/1663951837299367937)
*   [Have any of you read Samuel Butler’s *Erewhon* (1872)? I could use some exegesis](https://twitter.com/jasoncrawford/status/1665549239898832903)
*   [A book about economic history that focuses on how technology was scaled?](https://twitter.com/jasoncrawford/status/1663556597837352961)
*   [Is there a counterfactual world where we’re still pre-industrial?](https://twitter.com/jasoncrawford/status/1664300572177047552)
*   [Are self-driving cars still using control theory, with AI used only for sensors?](https://twitter.com/_julesh_/status/1664558743525158914)
*   [Has anybody made an actually good publicly editable database?](https://twitter.com/Ben_Reinhardt/status/1662862257812910086)

**Tweets**
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*   [Most people have no idea how much retail has gotten better over the last ~150 years](https://twitter.com/jasoncrawford/status/1665075487725559808)
*   [An urban planner responds to my post on regulation](https://twitter.com/LUrbaniste/status/1665181421009338369)
*   [Many people think self-driving failed, but there are customers in driverless taxis now](https://rootsofprogress.org/(https://twitter.com/binarybits/status/1663991359676530689))
*   [The meaning of mortality declines](https://twitter.com/salonium/status/1664283897721655299)
*   [The oldest known depiction of a steam-using atmospheric engine? From 1654!](https://twitter.com/antonhowes/status/1664332804358918144)
*   [Desalination was a big technological success story of the 2010s](https://twitter.com/IronEconomist/status/1652625073071595520)
*   [Rewarding AI for a correct thought process, not just the right answer](https://twitter.com/gdb/status/1664042876588941312)
*   [Humans correctly guessed an LLM chat agent was an AI only 60% of the time](https://twitter.com/johnjnay/status/1664083499618377728)
*   [LLMs will be units within larger orchestrated systems](https://twitter.com/miguelisolano/status/1662592149202907136)
*   [Environmental regulations are an all-purpose tool to indefinitely delay anything](https://twitter.com/ntaylor963/status/1664658710730268673)
*   [Should we build underground cities?](https://twitter.com/andrewhessel/status/1665430446203899904) (Maybe not, say [@ConnorTabarrok](https://twitter.com/ConnorTabarrok/status/1536109943920672768) and [Casey Handmer](https://caseyhandmer.wordpress.com/2020/04/05/welcome-to-my-secret-underground-lair/)). Related thread on [underground apartments](https://twitter.com/AaronBergman18/status/1535968622081867777).)
*   [Is it virtuous to assign probabilities to all uncertainty?](https://twitter.com/itaisher/status/1663933374375788544)

**Charts**
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*   [The UK continued to get rich after the end of empire (GDP growth actually increased)](https://marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2023/05/orwells-falsified-prediction-on-empire.html)

[![](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FxYVRXjWAAEaa7I.png)](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FxYVRXjWAAEaa7I.png)

*   [Iterative change is slow but over time it moves the world](https://twitter.com/Jordan_W_Taylor/status/1663882118177476610)

[![](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FxdL9dhWIAEJcos.jpg)](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FxdL9dhWIAEJcos.jpg)