# Progress links & tweets, 2022-09-08

**Opportunities**
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*   [Nat Friedman and Daniel Gross are investing $10M in AI-first products, apply here](https://aigrant.org/) (via [@natfriedman](https://twitter.com/natfriedman/status/1564655413785530368))
*   [Congressman Jake Auschincloss is hiring a Chief of Staff](https://www.linkedin.com/posts/auchincloss_chief-of-staff-job-description-activity-6971133171471896576-Uuhg/), [@MarkLutter encourages the progress community to apply](https://twitter.com/MarkLutter/status/1565700433867317250)

**Announcements**
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*   [*Superabundance: The Story of Population Growth, Innovation, and Human Flourishing on an Infinitely Bountiful Planet*](https://www.superabundance.com/) is a new book out from Tupy & Pooley. [Jeremy Horpedahl has a brief review.](https://economistwritingeveryday.com/2022/08/31/superabundance-review/). [Arnold Kling is slightly critical](https://arnoldkling.substack.com/p/has-everyone-forgotten-the-economics); I found his comments [interesting but not fully convincing](https://arnoldkling.substack.com/p/has-everyone-forgotten-the-economics/comment/8571977)
*   [Prediction market Kalshi is seeking approval to create election contracts, add your comment to the CFTC](https://kalshi.com/elections) (thread from CEO [@mansourtarek_](https://twitter.com/mansourtarek_/status/1564315602184978435))
*   [Aletheia is a new platform for communicating peer-evaluated research](https://aletheia-platform.netlify.app/) (via [@namalhotra](https://twitter.com/namalhotra/status/1564255571959615488))

**Links**
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*   [I don’t think we can assign quantitative probabilities to all our beliefs, but this essay argues that if we make coherent choices, then we have them at least implicitly](https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/RQpNHSiWaXTvDxt6R/coherent-decisions-imply-consistent-utilities)
*   [“Not even death can exempt you from TSA screening”](https://marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2022/09/cost-benefit-analysis-of-the-tsa.html)

**Queries**
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*   [Is there a case in the last century where a new technology didn’t become cheap enough for everyone?](https://twitter.com/davidmanheim/status/1566301374823948288) (@davidmanheim)
*   [Who should Derek Thompson talk to about why the British economy is such a mess?](https://twitter.com/DKThomp/status/1564269479412076545) (@DKThomp)
*   [Is there a nice comparable table of rocket turbopumps by flow rate and pressure head?](https://twitter.com/anderssandberg/status/1564273325223907333) (@anderssandberg)
*   [Did Queen Elizabeth I really inhibit the development of the stocking frame?](https://twitter.com/jasoncrawford/status/1565431151090470912)

**Quotes**
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*   [Gutenberg had to solve many intricate problems to make the printing press](https://twitter.com/jasoncrawford/status/1565804007041400832)
*   [Bacon anticipating Lakatos](https://twitter.com/jasoncrawford/status/1565804608613670914)
*   [Jefferson anticipating Paul Romer](https://twitter.com/jasoncrawford/status/1564688984386637824)
*   [Sawmills outnumbered even gristmills in 19th-century America](https://twitter.com/jasoncrawford/status/1565805003331305473)
*   [“Life in the big city,” London, 1850s](https://twitter.com/jasoncrawford/status/1565803044507471873)

**Tweets & retweets**
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*   [Norway’s tunnel: < $7M/km; Seattle’s tunnel: $1,167M/km](https://twitter.com/jasoncrawford/status/1566183749062078464)
*   [Diablo Canyon will continue operations until at least 2030](https://twitter.com/ANS_org/status/1565256892649127936) (@ANS_org)
*   [The more money an organization gives out, the less likely it is to fund unusual people](https://twitter.com/SamoBurja/status/1565066646124765184) (@SamoBurja)
*   [Beware the deepity](https://twitter.com/JeremiahDJohns/status/1565282047354191879) (@JeremiahDJohns)

**Charts**
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*   [The shift to WFH is saving ~200M hours and 6B miles of commuting/week in the US alone](https://twitter.com/I_Am_NickBloom/status/1564236320259461120) (@I\_Am\_NickBloom)

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