# Progress links and tweets, 2022-11-22

**The Progress Forum**
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*   [Welcome to the Progress Forum, the online home for the progress community](https://progressforum.org/posts/XTJfsw35jJcrdSECT/welcome-to-the-progress-forum)
*   [How fear of the ‘Mega-Machine’ helped end America’s postwar Golden Age](https://progressforum.org/posts/394qfuavQky4wavsS/how-fear-of-the-mega-machine-helped-end-america-s-postwar)
*   [Anton Howes on why we waited so long for the optical telegraph](https://progressforum.org/posts/SkmWuaBisAp6fH5L4/age-of-invention-the-beacons-are-lit)
*   [The curse of plenty](https://progressforum.org/posts/dmS6QLHv8FZRcsnaP/the-curse-of-plenty) (by [@mattsclancy](https://twitter.com/mattsclancy/status/1593431764357242880))
*   [How Karl Compton believed a research department should be run](https://progressforum.org/posts/CRvvSadvej72xMjNq/how-karl-compton-believed-a-research-department-should-be)

**Announcements**
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*   [Andy Matuschak launches a research fellowship for “transformative tools for thought”](https://notes.andymatuschak.org/Research_fellowship) (via [@andy_matuschak](https://twitter.com/andy_matuschak/status/1593356131081940993))
*   [Britain Remade, a new campaign focused on British economic growth](https://twitter.com/samrichardswebb/status/1592065683155976192) (@samrichardswebb)
*   [Waymo and Cruise are now both operating robotaxis in SF](https://twitter.com/kfury/status/1593732123311362048) (@kfury)
*   [The American Dynamism 50, from A16Z: “companies tackling our nation’s most pressing problems”](https://a16z.com/american-dynamism-50/) (via [@rmcentush](https://twitter.com/rmcentush/status/1592523045604061185))
*   [The Progress Dashboard, a collection of progress links and resources](https://twitter.com/jasoncrawford/status/1593306725674647552)
*   [Facebook AI launched Galactica, a large language model for science](https://galactica.org/) (via [@paperswithcode](https://twitter.com/paperswithcode/status/1592546933679476736)). Looked cool but did not actually work super-well and got pulled quickly
*   [We hit 8 billion people](https://twitter.com/yishan/status/1592486117781082112) (@yishan)

**Links**
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*   [For Thanksgiving, why we should be grateful for modern textiles](https://vpostrel.substack.com/p/from-the-archives-thanksgiving-edition) (Virginia Postrel)
*   [Planes are still decades away from displacing most bird jobs](https://guzey.com/ai/planes-vs-birds/) (by [@alexeyguzey](https://twitter.com/alexeyguzey/status/1592923308856860672))

**Queries**
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*   [Intuition for why you can knock off a piece of a rock by hitting it with a piece of wood/bone?](https://twitter.com/jasoncrawford/status/1593714814727032832)
*   [If you know Bret Victor’s “Inventing on Principle,” what’s your principle?](https://twitter.com/Prigoose/status/1593951894128336896) (@Prigoose). (If you don’t know it, [see here](https://jasoncrawford.org/holding-a-creative-vision-as-a-moral-principle))
*   [A good writeup of the Gates Foundation’s role in covid response?](https://twitter.com/benlandautaylor/status/1592948083184181249) (@benlandautaylor)

**Quotes**
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*   [Incandescent light is “so wasteful… as to render its practical application impossible” -Nature, 1878](https://www.nature.com/articles/019052a0) (via [@_brianpotter](https://twitter.com/_brianpotter/status/1593314708710473730)). I added [some context](https://twitter.com/jasoncrawford/status/1593341960860815366)
*   [“Toys with as much power as the great IBM computers”](https://twitter.com/arbesman/status/1592654217550106624) (@arbesman)
*   [Von Neumann on existential risk](https://twitter.com/IvanVendrov/status/1591818398358507523) (@IvanVendrov)

**Tweets & retweets**
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*   [My meta-level take on “why did everything take so long?”](https://twitter.com/jasoncrawford/status/1592981018914746368) (thread version of [this previous post](https://rootsofprogress.org/when-to-be-surprised-an-invention-took-so-long))
*   [AGI will get built sooner than most people think, but take longer to “change everything”](https://twitter.com/sama/status/1592993284112420865) (@sama)
*   [10 things underrated about America](https://twitter.com/zachtratar/status/1593401522792046592) (@zachtratar)
*   [Patterns across bubbles](https://twitter.com/jasoncrawford/status/1592298247217098752)
*   [RIP Fred Brooks, who wrote the classic book on software engineering, *The Mythical Man-Month*](https://twitter.com/jasoncrawford/status/1593475495114420225)
*   [A misheard word caused a $500M nuclear cleanup](https://twitter.com/curiouswavefn/status/1593264396343468033) (@curiouswavefn)