# Progress links and tweets, 2023-03-01

**The Progress Forum**
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*   [Anton Howes on what the Dutch did better than the English](https://progressforum.org/posts/dTHa6Snm4a3yNFBtJ/age-of-invention-how-the-dutch-did-it-better)
*   [AMA with Gale Pooley & Marian Tupy, authors of *Superabundance*](https://progressforum.org/posts/FyahHm7kAKvpRHCX9/ama-gale-pooley-and-marian-tupy-authors-of-superabundance)
*   [Ben Reinhardt AMA has concluded](https://progressforum.org/posts/ukhmKgcDgwJSPxMmq/ama-ben-reinhardt-speculative-technologies)

**Opportunities**
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*   [Lex Fridman wants to meet people, fill out this form to get coffee with him](https://lexfridman.com/coffee)
*   [Essay contest: “What does a perfect research institute look like?”](https://eu-life.eu/Utopia-essay-contest) (via [@akuataya](https://twitter.com/akuataya/status/1629580367056322566))

**News & announcements**
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*   [Works in Progress Issue 10](https://worksinprogress.co/issue-10) (thread from [@s8mb](https://twitter.com/s8mb/status/1629135451079442433))
*   [OpenAI announces its long-term strategy and principles](https://openai.com/blog/planning-for-agi-and-beyond/)
*   [BioGPT, an LLM trained on biomedical research literature](https://academic.oup.com/bib/article-abstract/23/6/bbac409/6713511?login=false) (via [@tunguz](https://twitter.com/tunguz/status/1628027051503386624))
*   [Constitutional AI: training LLMs with behavioral principles](https://www.anthropic.com/constitutional.pdf) (from [@AnthropicAI](https://twitter.com/AnthropicAI/status/1603791161419698181))
*   [UAE turned on its third nuclear reactor in 3 years](https://twitter.com/BrianGitt/status/1629166721952280578) (@BrianGitt)

**Articles & essays**
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*   [“How can anyone stop being fascinated for long enough to be angry?” Scott Aaronson on GPT](https://scottaaronson.blog/?p=7042)
*   [Jerusalem Demsas on “permission-slip culture” in America](https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2023/02/state-licensing-requirements-cosmetologists-landscape-architecture/673196/) (via [@atrembath](https://twitter.com/atrembath/status/1629147372306432005))
*   [“Cyborgism” as a strategy for using LLMs](https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/bxt7uCiHam4QXrQAA/cyborgism)

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**Queries**
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*   [Can anyone intro Dwarkesh to Robert Caro?](https://twitter.com/dwarkesh_sp/status/1628480061493112832) (@dwarkesh_sp)
*   [What’s the best book on Taylorism?](https://twitter.com/davidtlang/status/1629217608477327360) (@davidtlang)
*   [What are the best books about insurance?](https://twitter.com/ByrneHobart/status/1630001834046652418) (@ByrneHobart)
*   [Best writing to illustrate to the layman where we’re at with AGI?](https://twitter.com/PatrickFinley_/status/1629238898336444416) (@PatrickFinley_)

**Quotes**
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*   [Everything has to be invented, including stop signs and numbered highways](https://twitter.com/jasoncrawford/status/1629611991496105985)
*   [The great equalizer: indoor plumbing](https://twitter.com/jasoncrawford/status/1628238920952455170)
*   [When your boat gets in an accident and works better afterward](https://twitter.com/jasoncrawford/status/1627859738661625856)
*   [The restless motivation of Paul Ehrlich (the German microbiologist)](https://twitter.com/jasoncrawford/status/1629608379856347136)
*   [A good metaphor for breakthroughs](https://twitter.com/jasoncrawford/status/1627861751696949249)
*   [In the 19th century this was considered a sick burn](https://twitter.com/jasoncrawford/status/1628581608629456896)

**Tweets & threads**
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*   [Institute for Progress one-year anniversary retrospective](https://twitter.com/calebwatney/status/1629159379667759105) (@calebwatney)
*   [All solutions reveal new problems. But to *be* solutions they must be better problems](https://twitter.com/ToKTeacher/status/1628149369559199747)
*   [Virtually everything about spacecraft was figured out by a Russian eccentric decades before rocketry](https://twitter.com/perrymetzger/status/1627465913237635074)
*   [“The technology we have can do X. Therefore, it will always be limited to X”](https://twitter.com/perrymetzger/status/1629855738662141953)
*   [An easy way to trick ChatGPT](https://twitter.com/jasoncrawford/status/1628379241619283970)
*   [Can China lead on AI if free speech is literally a feature the technology?](https://twitter.com/jasoncrawford/status/1629580883354157057)
*   [Listen to people when you’re impressed by *how* they think, not when you agree with *what* they think](https://twitter.com/AdamMGrant/status/1628164690105847808) (@AdamMGrant channeling @waitbutwhy)
*   [The invention of the modern pictogram](https://twitter.com/incunabula/status/1164278609437253637)

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**Charts**
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*   [Workers needed at S&P 500 companies to generate $1M in revenue](https://twitter.com/tobi/status/1628749905920462851) (@tobi)

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*   **UPDATE:** [Adjusted for inflation. Less dramatic but same trend](https://twitter.com/drorpoleg/status/1620596928093523969) (h/t [@Zac Hatfield-Dodds](https://www.lesswrong.com/users/zac-hatfield-dodds?mention=user) below)

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