# Progress links and tweets, 2022-09-28

**Announcements**
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*   [“Vast is developing artificial gravity space stations to expand humanity across the solar system”](https://www.vast.space/)
*   [Derek Thompson and Ezra Klein are writing a book about abundance](https://twitter.com/DKThomp/status/1571940805874520065) (@DKThomp)
*   [Foresight DAO to seed-fund “projects in longevity, nanotechnology, BCIs, private computing, and space tech that are too ambitious for legacy funders to support”](https://gitcoin.co/grants/7151/seed-funding-for-foresight-dao) (via [@foresightinst](https://twitter.com/foresightinst/status/1572300883291144194))
*   [FTX Future Fund offering up to $1.5M in prizes to change their minds on AGI x-risk](https://ftxfuturefund.org/announcing-the-future-funds-ai-worldview-prize/) (via [@leopoldasch](https://twitter.com/leopoldasch/status/1573354571661189120))

**Quotes**
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*   [Even before the locomotive, road and coach improvements alone sped up stagecoach travel by 4x in the 1700s](https://twitter.com/jasoncrawford/status/1573349107221266432)
*   [If you think *today’s* food additives are unhealthy…](https://twitter.com/jasoncrawford/status/1572589225480003589)
*   [The “control revolution”](https://twitter.com/jasoncrawford/status/1572408160194859009)
*   [Engage with *criticism*, but don’t worry too much about *critics*](https://twitter.com/jasoncrawford/status/1573350193847828481)

**Retweets**
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*   [Thread from the International Manufacturing Technology Show, “devoted to CNC mills, grinders, robot arms, metrology, CAD, 3D printing etc”](https://twitter.com/Ben_Reinhardt/status/1573384250300469249) (@Ben_Reinhardt)
*   [With mRNA, we can create a much more effective annual flu shot](https://twitter.com/calebwatney/status/1571904898802896899) (@calebwatney)
*   [Two schoolkids who don’t speak the same language chatted for a whole bus ride using Google Translate](https://twitter.com/johnjhorton/status/1573042236555681793) (@johnjhorton)
*   [Belgium closing a nuclear plant that produces almost 10% of its electricity is “civilizational controlled flight into terrain”](https://twitter.com/patrickc/status/1573434764991909891) (@patrickc)
*   [When you optimize a proxy, you make progress for a while, but then you start overoptimizing](https://twitter.com/janleike/status/1573009693458706433) (@janleike)
*   [Frederick Douglass on “the good luck theory of self-made men”](https://twitter.com/mbateman/status/1572490680169123840) (@mbateman)

**Queries**
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*   [Books on the founding of research universities?](https://twitter.com/acesounderglass/status/1572342933025849345) (@acesounderglass)
*   [What don’t people get, or fully appreciate, about your job?](https://twitter.com/DKThomp/status/1572580922335297539) (@DKThomp)
*   [What do you call a newsletter writer?](https://twitter.com/vgr/status/1571692252103344128) (@vgr)

**Pics**
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*   Me speaking at MIT to the Boston ACX and MIT EA groups (via [@moreisdifferent](https://twitter.com/moreisdifferent/status/1573328367449165824)). (That sketch on the chalkboard behind me was me trying to replicate [this graph from Max Roser](https://twitter.com/jasoncrawford/status/1573339156176306177))

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

**Poetry**
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*   Apropos of nothing: [“Compensation,” by Theodosia Pickering Garrison (1874-1944)](https://twitter.com/jasoncrawford/status/1572024105641074692)