# Progress links and tweets, 2023-02-08

**The Progress Forum**
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*   [A catalog of big visions for biology](https://progressforum.org/posts/g9KcwhSPh6JPhXqua/a-catalog-of-big-visions-for-biology)
*   [London progress meetup, Feb 25](https://progressforum.org/events/nKvLfmZffbC7x76sF/progress-drinks-and-party)
*   [A Cure for My Cancer](https://progressforum.org/posts/95824dNunz8zDk8PS/a-cure-for-my-cancer), by Virginia Postrel
*   [Eli Dourado AMA has concluded](https://progressforum.org/posts/acgrRfWETEdm96xJk/eli-dourado-ama)

**Announcements**
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*   [Metascience event at AEI, Feb 9](https://www.aei.org/events/metascience-for-the-public-policy-solutions-to-flagging-productivity/) (via [@AlecStapp](https://twitter.com/AlecStapp/status/1620154014070632449))
*   [Visa Limbo, a site from IFP tracking visa processing delays](https://www.visalimbo.org/) (via [@JeremyLNeufeld](https://twitter.com/JeremyLNeufeld/status/1620114968187375617))
*   [OpenAI launches ChatGPT Plus for $20/month](https://openai.com/blog/chatgpt-plus/) (via [@miramurati](https://twitter.com/miramurati/status/1620851686125502464))

**Links**
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*   [Let’s add AP Progress to the high school curriculum](https://fasterplease.substack.com/p/lets-add-ap-progress-to-the-high?r=il2l&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web) (by [@JimPethokoukis](https://twitter.com/JimPethokoukis/status/1621128131330588672))
*   [Marc Andreessen on Dwarkesh’s podcast](https://www.dwarkeshpatel.com/p/marc-andreessen). Also Dwarkesh now has [paid subscriptions](https://twitter.com/dwarkesh_sp/status/1621211730885087233). And [what should he ask Elad Gil?](https://twitter.com/dwarkesh_sp/status/1621542868996456449)
*   [A vision for cargo airships](https://www.elidourado.com/p/cargo-airships) (by [@elidourado](https://twitter.com/elidourado/status/1620063768498810881))
*   [This comment convinced me I was wrong: we are not “pre-theory” regarding cancer](https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/xzf84rwi5C4JnKkWP/can-we-cure-cancer?commentId=kc2YdvKWWaYx6aLak)
*   [NASA, DARPA to test nuclear engine for Mars missions](https://www.nasa.gov/press-release/nasa-darpa-will-test-nuclear-engine-for-future-mars-missions) (via [@elidourado](https://twitter.com/elidourado/status/1618043551966986241))

**Queries**
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*   [Is there a directory of all the open-ended grant programs?](https://twitter.com/jasoncrawford/status/1621626902619328517)
*   [Who should Milan Cvitkovic meet in SF?](https://twitter.com/MWCvitkovic/status/1621557459746701315) (@MWCvitkovic)
*   [Who is hiring for robotics roles/internships?](https://twitter.com/momahmood_/status/1621375699327287296) (@momahmood_)
*   [What is the best way to bootstrap an advanced understanding of biology?](https://twitter.com/danielgolliher/status/1621911310861484037) (@danielgolliher)

**Quotes**
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*   [The philosophers who told us not to celebrate progress](https://twitter.com/jasoncrawford/status/1620461755867582464)
*   [History is biased to war and politics; progress is relatively neglected](https://twitter.com/jasoncrawford/status/1620460979665371136)
*   [“Scientific management” was the precursor to 20th-century technocracy](https://twitter.com/jasoncrawford/status/1621939956900929536)
*   [The need for ambition, from GH Hardy’s “A Mathematician’s Apology”](https://twitter.com/nabeelqu/status/1621560271192952833) (@nabeelqu)
*   [Bacon on lumpers vs. splitters](https://twitter.com/jasoncrawford/status/1620461092785848320)

**Tweets**
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*   [LLMs create a vector space for concepts](https://twitter.com/jasoncrawford/status/1621967730575347712)
*   [We will get many specialized AIs, not a massive centralized Great Brain](https://twitter.com/jasoncrawford/status/1620975715054403587)
*   [People’s work is defined more by their methods than their goals](https://twitter.com/jasoncrawford/status/1621231048058175489)

**Retweets**
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*   [How much more quickly things were done in the 1960s](https://twitter.com/Gilesyb/status/1620672431374614528) (@Gilesyb)
*   [ChatGPT as a universal translator](https://twitter.com/YirenLu/status/1620171023575580673) (@YirenLu)
*   [69 of 109 jurisdictions in SFBA now subject to the builder’s remedy](https://twitter.com/Yimby_Law/status/1620834430788210688) (@Yimby_Law)
*   [“This might be my favorite 1-page philosophy paper”](https://twitter.com/davidalanbuiles/status/1620787660796358656) (@davidalanbuiles)
*   [A hypothesis about things capitalism gets blamed for](https://twitter.com/mbateman/status/1621948629035454464) (@mbateman)

**Charts**
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*   [Auckland liberalized building rules and housing permits soared](https://twitter.com/jasoncrawford/status/1620081773639274498)

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