# Progress links and tweets, 2023-01-17

**The Progress Forum**
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*   [Tyler Cowen AMA](https://progressforum.org/posts/3aNLznQiLuyTKMhpH/tyler-cowen-ama)
*   [“In Praise of Fast Food” by Rachel Laudan](https://progressforum.org/posts/2qjDmMwGzrDbGiMbf/in-praise-of-fast-food-by-rachel-laudan) (excerpts and link)
*   [Construction of the World Trade Center](https://progressforum.org/posts/MmENJA5x2p6MB7mEa/building-fast-and-slow-part-iv-construction-of-the-world) (Brian Potter)
*   [The Pull of Cities](https://progressforum.org/posts/KMRCypg4dzj5PHSTw/age-of-invention-the-pull-of-cities) (Anton Howes)
*   [Gift subscriptions to Jim Pethokoukis’s Substack](https://progressforum.org/posts/bcPHJ8KrDDGRsga3E/who-wants-a-gift-subscription-to-jim-pethokoukis-s-substack)

**Opportunities**
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*   [The O’Shaughnessy Fellowship: 1 year, $100k for ambitious people](https://www.osv.llc/oshaughnessy-fellowships)

**Links**
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*   [*The Economist* on progress studies and other “new tech worldviews”](https://www.economist.com/christmas-specials/2022/12/20/the-new-tech-worldview)
*   [New Substack on nuclear power by Jack Devanney](https://jackdevanney.substack.com/)
*   [~~Quantum computers may break RSA encryption sooner than expected~~](https://arxiv.org/abs/2212.12372) ~~(via~~ [~~@tegmark~~](https://twitter.com/tegmark/status/1611138524874424321)~~)~~ \[**UPDATE:** [this is probably bogus](https://scottaaronson.blog/?p=6957)**\]**
*   [How much does a gas stove shorten your life? Maybe ~53 days](https://dynomight.net/stoves/) (by [@dynomight](https://twitter.com/dynomight7/status/1613666123278426114))
*   [Time-to-violent-death of Roman emperors displayed a bathtub curve](https://marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2023/01/how-long-does-a-roman-emperor-last-for.html)
*   [Caro is *still* working on the 5th and final volume of his LBJ bio](https://www.vulture.com/article/bob-gottlieb-robert-caro-turn-every-page-profile.html)
*   [Nathan Myhrvold wrote a five-volume anthology on bread](https://modernistcuisine.com/books/modernist-bread/) (!)

**Queries**
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*   [What should Dwarkesh ask Marc Andreessen?](https://twitter.com/dwarkesh_sp/status/1614004908386299904) (@dwarkesh_sp)
*   [Recommendations for things to read on well-run scientific labs?](https://progressforum.org/posts/ps69a2ZEc5DfozRBC/recommendations-for-things-to-read-on-well-run-scientific)
*   [Why didn’t the predicted demise of radiologists happen?](https://twitter.com/BenGoldhaber/status/1611074716927922177) (@BenGoldhaber)
*   [Good sources showing how labor-intensive industries tend to move to where low-cost labor is?](https://twitter.com/_brianpotter/status/1611084802513408000) (@_brianpotter)
*   [What would it take for 2022-2090 to be as transformative for medicine/biology as 1870-1950?](https://twitter.com/Willyintheworld/status/1614428738380337152) (@Willyintheworld)
*   [What are more examples of individual grant programs such as Thiel Fellowship or Emergent Ventures?](https://twitter.com/William_Blake/status/1614296483582312451) (@William_Blake)
*   [What does the “progressive” vision of the future look like today?](https://twitter.com/lo_commotion/status/1610128463876194308) (@lo_commotion)
*   [Can anyone find a source for this quote?](https://twitter.com/jasoncrawford/status/1610063617763999744)

**Tweets**
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*   [The devastating human consequences of the Ehrlichs’ campaign against “overpopulation.”](https://twitter.com/jasoncrawford/status/1413307328141709320) (@daniel_eth asks, [why has this man not been canceled yet?](https://twitter.com/daniel_eth/status/1610954336397557760))
*   [“Traditional foods” are not very old](https://twitter.com/jasoncrawford/status/1610712475984629760)
*   [In the long run, we need a heat-management system for the Earth](https://twitter.com/jasoncrawford/status/1610326985607352320)
*   [Amazing progress on tap water connections in rural India](https://twitter.com/jasoncrawford/status/1610324245917335552)

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**Quotes**
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*   [Things we take for granted: that glass is transparent](https://twitter.com/jasoncrawford/status/1609974131780452353)
*   [Sanger’s Rule for technical advances in scientific experimentation](https://twitter.com/jasoncrawford/status/1611041494663860226)
*   [Building bridges and keeping the water running are underrated](https://twitter.com/jasoncrawford/status/1612141237980504065)
*   [Penicillin was stalled for a decade after the initial attempt to extract it failed](https://twitter.com/jasoncrawford/status/1610307664986226696)
*   [Bitumen was the Super Glue™ of the third millennium BC](https://twitter.com/jasoncrawford/status/1611198127284916224)
*   [Technologies often start out with “trivial“ uses and become necessities](https://twitter.com/jasoncrawford/status/1610307153293709312)
*   [No society has held technological leadership for very long](https://twitter.com/jasoncrawford/status/1612141084959719430)
*   [“*I have yet to hear anyone even mention the theoretical possibility* that we could respond to a new variant … by trying to vaccinate people before they could get infected”](https://twitter.com/jasoncrawford/status/1611036115762544640)
*   [A Department of Drugs and a War on Education?](https://twitter.com/jasoncrawford/status/1611120198769311744)

**Retweets**
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*   [Megascale engineering is already around us](https://twitter.com/anderssandberg/status/1610408477335162881) (@anderssandberg)
*   [Perhaps the most underrated invention is the corporation](https://twitter.com/William_Blake/status/1613913436047683584) (@William_Blake)
*   [2023 will make 2022 look like a sleepy year for AI](https://twitter.com/gdb/status/1609244547460255744) (@gdb)
*   [It’s insane that we’ve decided to make housing scarce enough to consume a major fraction of GDP](https://twitter.com/CJHandmer/status/1609969511826083840) (@CJHandmer)
*   [There should be a Wikipedia for careers](https://twitter.com/eriktorenberg/status/1609979842463952898) (@eriktorenberg)
*   [Students don’t need new ideas; they need good ones](https://twitter.com/DanFChambliss/status/1611461301980614656) (@DanFChambliss)