# Progress links and tweets, 2023-03-22

**Progress Forum**
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*   [AMA: Allison Duettmann, Foresight Institute](https://progressforum.org/posts/mLYtBanaPywCCjm5f/ama-allison-duettmann-foresight-institute)
*   [NYC progress meetup on March 27 at NY Public Library](https://progressforum.org/events/bnFJ2gMswu5ypAgbL/nyc-progress-studies-march-25-2-4pm-in-nypl)

**Opportunities**
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*   ARIA (UK) is hiring [program directors](https://twitter.com/ilangur/status/1631634336305774592) and [other roles](https://twitter.com/ARIA_research/status/1634136809612488705)
*   [Seed funding for ideas to accelerate scientific progress](https://experiment.com/grants/metascience) (via [@heidilwilliams_](https://twitter.com/heidilwilliams_/status/1633865053962395648))
*   [Real Engineering (YouTube channel) hiring a 3D modeler](https://twitter.com/TheBrianMcManus/status/1635408544735563778)

**Announcements**
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*   [OpenAI launches GPT-4](https://openai.com/research/gpt-4) (via [@sama](https://twitter.com/sama/status/1635687853324902401)). Also, [Anthropic opens access to Claude](https://twitter.com/AnthropicAI/status/1635679544521920512). And [Poe can access both](https://twitter.com/adamdangelo/status/1635690625642397696)
*   [$50M for more FROs in drug discovery / proteomics](https://www.forbes.com/sites/alexknapp/2023/03/17/why-billionaires-ken-griffin-and-eric-schmidt-are-spending-50-million-on-a-new-kind-of-scientific-research/?sh=5059765e2847) (via [@tkalil2050](https://twitter.com/tkalil2050/status/1636725160899403779))
*   [Loyal receives FDA approval for a clinical study on an aging drug](https://twitter.com/celinehalioua/status/1636422997891502081)
*   [Zipline unveils a home delivery drone system](https://twitter.com/ryanzip/status/1636107658204975104)
*   [Vesuvius Challenge: $1M prize to read ancient scrolls using AI](https://scrollprize.org/) (via [@natfriedman](https://twitter.com/natfriedman/status/1636028472819867650))
*   [Aalo Atomics, a new nuclear startup](https://www.aalo.com/) (via [@MattLoszak](https://twitter.com/MattLoszak/status/1635684435466104844), not much detail though)
*   [Deirdre McCloskey joins Cato](https://twitter.com/DeirdreMcClosk/status/1633903754767417349)

**Links**
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*   [“Nanomodular electronics”: 3D printing of microelectronics](https://spec.tech/library/nanomodular-electronics-roadmap) (via [@Spec__Tech](https://twitter.com/Spec__Tech/status/1633163603334295570))
*   [John von Neumann asks, “Can we survive technology?”](https://geosci.uchicago.edu/~kite/doc/von_Neumann_1955.pdf) (via [@michael_nielsen](https://twitter.com/michael_nielsen/status/1634348204220366849))
*   [Dan Wang’s annual letter for 2022](https://danwang.co/2022-letter/)

**Queries**
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*   [What are some specific benefits enabled by human-level AI?](https://twitter.com/jasoncrawford/status/1636008318417227776)
*   [What is a question to ask GPT to prove whether it has a world model?](https://twitter.com/d_feldman/status/1636912262093864963)
*   [What are the best arguments that the “atomization” of society is real and important?](https://twitter.com/mbateman/status/1637295394085392384)
*   [What should Hannah Ritchie read about whether nuclear is too slow to build?](https://twitter.com/_HannahRitchie/status/1637121830388396032)
*   [What should Michael Nielsen read about AI safety, ethics, and policy?](https://twitter.com/michael_nielsen/status/1633245404031782912)
*   [What should Emmet Shear read to get up to date on neuroscience?](https://twitter.com/jasoncrawford/status/1637443192428584960)
*   [Who are good people to follow for deep timeless general insights?](https://twitter.com/robinhanson/status/1634397775457648640)

**Quotes**
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*   [Deirdre McCloskey on the spiritual benefits of economic progress](https://twitter.com/jasoncrawford/status/1632802881865760769)
*   [“That salutary fear of the future that makes one watchful and combative”](https://twitter.com/rgblong/status/1633498597449957376)
*   [“The time will come when the machines will hold the real supremacy over the world”](https://twitter.com/rgblong/status/1632575665978609665)
*   [“I was born in this century in which the whole world became known”](https://twitter.com/MTabarrok/status/1636125712867377152)
*   [Vannevar Bush on paying attention to the quiet minorty vs. the noisy one](https://twitter.com/jasoncrawford/status/1636823321487585281)
*   [Edsger Dijkstra: “we should occasionally welcome the nightmares”](https://twitter.com/jasoncrawford/status/1633515465308872727)
*   [John Stuart Mill on the nature of credit](https://twitter.com/Machiavellecon/status/1635952238832103424)

**AI**
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*   [Is AI is the next big thing in computing history, industrial history, or *human* history?](https://twitter.com/jasoncrawford/status/1636007282663145475)
*   [GPT-4 can explain memes](https://twitter.com/xu3kev/status/1635701331494043653) and [run an online business](https://twitter.com/jasoncrawford/status/1636410636627263489)
*   [Duolingo launches a language tutor powered by GPT-4](https://twitter.com/edwin_bodge/status/1635996984682184704)
*   [AI assistance for the blind](https://twitter.com/BeMyEyes/status/1635690254689599488) (h/t [@peterwildeford](https://twitter.com/peterwildeford/status/1635747193922486274))
*   [John Carmack on how to build software skills that won’t be obsoleted by AI](https://twitter.com/ID_AA_Carmack/status/1637087219591659520)
*   [The “AI will expand your bullet points into prose and then someone else’s AI will turn them back into bullet points” thing is now an official product demo](https://twitter.com/jasoncrawford/status/1636004504838479877)
*   [“Fascinating how nobody thinks image AIs are conscious”](https://twitter.com/nat_sharpe_/status/1633256060000563200)
*   [*Cyrano de Bergerac*, but with ChatGPT](https://twitter.com/jasoncrawford/status/1634270654571618304)
*   [The Book of ChatGPT](https://twitter.com/jasoncrawford/status/1633288979737980929)

**Misc.**
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*   [Why did we build clockwork automata before we automated most human labor?](https://twitter.com/jasoncrawford/status/1633288122925568002)
*   [Taking a driverless taxi around San Francisco](https://twitter.com/Jess_Riedel/status/1634478446645768193)
*   [In 1929 people thought skyscrapers would make the workday shorter](https://twitter.com/drorpoleg/status/1634212882505162754) (note that a [shorter workday](https://rootsofprogress.org/the-four-hour-workday-prediction) was a common prediction at that time!)
*   [Bottled gardens can last for decades; space colony ecosystems should be doable](https://twitter.com/ID_AA_Carmack/status/1634615805613572096)
*   [“There’s no intrinsic shortage of H2O. It falls from the skies!”](https://twitter.com/CJHandmer/status/1635249977369989121)
*   [The benefits of social media](https://twitter.com/s8mb/status/1635634465979662336)
*   [Charts and memes that show how rapidly the world can change](https://twitter.com/XiXiDu/status/1635575097334329344)
*   [Lamenting the demise of the sweeping multi-volume histical opus](https://twitter.com/benlandautaylor/status/1360762669393846274). Like [this](https://twitter.com/benlandautaylor/status/1623163821849477120)
*   Bret Victor: [“We are ants crawing on a tree branch.”](https://twitter.com/jasoncrawford/status/1635106564058284032) Also, [how to read](https://twitter.com/michael_nielsen/status/1635025252609818624)
*   [A 14-Earths-tall swirling column of plasma](https://twitter.com/AJamesMcCarthy/status/1637189824317894656)

**Politics & policy**
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*   [UK announces unilateral recognition for medicines approved overseas](https://twitter.com/Sam_Dumitriu/status/1635993412678696961)
*   [Another major infrastructure project abandoned in part due to legal challenges](https://twitter.com/AlecStapp/status/1635371164251070464). And [what Republicans should offer on permitting](https://twitter.com/elidourado/status/1635693412446875672)
*   [How laws get abused](https://twitter.com/jasoncrawford/status/1636504742296682502)
*   [Luddites vs. safetyists](https://twitter.com/daniel_eth/status/1633682899361996800)
*   [“Consultation Nation”](https://twitter.com/antonhowes/status/1634537883947155456)
*   [A parallel between banking regulation & pharma regulation](https://twitter.com/jasoncrawford/status/1635439473747013638)
*   [Our antiquated lawmaking process will be seen as a bizarre relic, says Balaji](https://twitter.com/balajis/status/1634148981986013184)
*   [Matthew Green: EU “chat control” law is “the most alarming proposal I’ve ever read”](https://twitter.com/matthew_d_green/status/1634252397919739921)

**Charts**
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*   [How technology helps us find love](https://twitter.com/MichaelDPlant/status/1634105682138898433)

[![](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Fq2CdWbWIAAEV_i.png)](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Fq2CdWbWIAAEV_i.png)

*   [Changes in the colors of objects since 1800](https://lab.sciencemuseum.org.uk/colour-shape-using-computer-vision-to-explore-the-science-museum-c4b4f1cbd72c) (via [@paulg](https://twitter.com/paulg/status/1634562671478558720))

[![](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Fq8hcgWXoAErp22.jpg)](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Fq8hcgWXoAErp22.jpg)