# Progress links and tweets, 2023-03-08

**The Progress Forum**
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*   [Derek Thompson interviews Patrick Collison on progress](https://progressforum.org/posts/f3dsHomctgaJXeQWp/patrick-collison-on-supercharging-science)

**Opportunities**
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*   [Essay contest: “How could science be different?”](https://qspace.fqxi.org/competitions/introduction) (via [@moreisdifferent](https://twitter.com/moreisdifferent/status/1632069885189853190))

**Marc Andreessen is blogging again**
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*   [“What’s my hope? To show you that we live in a more interesting world than you might think; that it’s more comprehensible than you might fear; and that more things are possible than you might imagine”](https://pmarca.substack.com/p/welcome)
*   [“This is the most normal and placid things are ever going to be”](https://pmarca.substack.com/p/availability-cascades-run-the-world)
*   [“We are heading into a world where a flat screen TV that covers your entire wall costs $100, and a four year college degree costs $1 million”](https://pmarca.substack.com/p/why-ai-wont-cause-unemployment)

**Links**
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*   [The U.S. is a build-nothing country](https://noahpinion.substack.com/p/the-build-nothing-country). See also [@ericgoldwyn’s comment](https://twitter.com/ericgoldwyn/status/1630367531318779904)
*   [Samuel Smiles, industrial biographer and founder of the self-help genre](https://www.lindahall.org/about/news/scientist-of-the-day/samuel-smiles)
*   [Adversarial collaboration on how income relates to well-being](https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2208661120) (via [@amandaegeiser](https://twitter.com/amandaegeiser/status/1631054235885346816))
*   [Be careful inferring causality in the presence of control loops](https://worthwhile.typepad.com/worthwhile_canadian_initi/2010/12/milton-friedmans-thermostat.html)
*   [Brass Birmingham is a board game set in the Industrial Revolution](https://martinfowler.com/articles/brass-brum.html) (h/t [@ejames_c](https://twitter.com/ejames_c/status/1631308592275128323))
*   [The Iconographic Encyclopædia of Science, Literature, and Art](https://www.c82.net/iconography/technology#vertical-water-wheels)

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**Queries**
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*   [Who are the most influential essay writers who never wrote books?](https://twitter.com/jasoncrawford/status/1630652693436932097)
*   [What should Dwarkesh ask Scott Aaronson?](https://twitter.com/dwarkesh_sp/status/1631375575779774464) and [Eliezer Yudkowsky?](https://twitter.com/dwarkesh_sp/status/1632467143093805057)
*   [Is there any study comparing independents to employees on job satisfaction?](https://twitter.com/jasoncrawford/status/1630572562798329856)
*   [What’s the best book about pre-21st century General Electric?](https://twitter.com/_brianpotter/status/1631703637658304517)
*   [What should Anastasia read after Kuhn relevant to research and progress?](https://twitter.com/AGamick/status/1632378793812697088)
*   [Any other authors have data loss problems with Scrivener?](https://twitter.com/jasoncrawford/status/1630422851307143169)
*   [What has happened since this was made in 2017? Is pharma IRR negative now?](https://twitter.com/jasoncrawford/status/1630685934474653697)

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**Tweets & retweets**
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*   [Are we going through a crisis of meaning in our jobs?](https://twitter.com/jasoncrawford/status/1630415166633377792)
*   [What does solar look like in the limit?](https://twitter.com/TerraformIndies/status/1630481836676907009) (thread)
*   [We have created the heaven our ancestors dreamed of](https://twitter.com/ElonBachman/status/1630907694981824513)
*   [A Keatsian science sonnet. “More scientific heroes in literature please”](https://twitter.com/HenryEOliver/status/1630515047872036864)
*   [The real effect of LLMs on software will be felt after 6–18 months of the product cycle](https://twitter.com/patio11/status/1631118798257545218)
*   [AI problems that were considered “nowhere near solved” in a book published 2021](https://twitter.com/LaraThurnherr/status/1632115160075649025)
*   [In SF a pedestrian bridge costs $200M and presents ”daunting logistics”](https://twitter.com/kane/status/1632070968041672707)
*   [Academia encourages historians to prioritize tenure at the expense of social value](https://twitter.com/BretDevereaux/status/1632167827141533701)
*   [Predicting the future is hard, Bertrand Russell edition](https://twitter.com/peterwildeford/status/1631152092407803904)
*   [Shape rotators 📈, wordcels 📉](https://twitter.com/jasoncrawford/status/1632216373903466496)
*   [The first radio telescope was built by an amateur in his back yard](https://twitter.com/jasoncrawford/status/1630691289015496704)

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**Charts**
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*   [Last week’s chart on worker/revenue ratio adjusted for inflation, a bit less dramatic](https://twitter.com/drorpoleg/status/1620596928093523969)

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