# Progress links and tweets, 2023-04-24

**The Progress Forum**
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*   [Atlas Fellowship: $10k scholarship + 11-day program for high schoolers](https://progressforum.org/posts/A8Sjm58DDd4ZYkSLu/high-schoolers-can-apply-to-the-atlas-fellowship-usd10k)
*   [AMA with Bryan Bishop has concluded](https://progressforum.org/posts/9nEEu94bnsvmg3v2t/ama-bryan-bishop-biohacker-and-founder-of-custodia-bank)

**Opportunities**
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*   [Erik Torenberg hiring a “researcher in residence”](https://twitter.com/eriktorenberg/status/1424830118040506387)

**Links**
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*   [What a simple toy could tell the past about their future](http://www.tobyord.com/writing/a-childs-plaything)
*   [IRBs save a few people while killing 10,000–100,000 more and costing $1.6B](https://astralcodexten.substack.com/p/book-review-from-oversight-to-overkill)
*   [Science depends on promoting good outliers, not preventing bad outliers](https://www.experimental-history.com/p/science-is-a-strong-link-problem)
*   [Breeding mosquitoes to prevent disease](https://marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2023/04/a-mosquito-factory.html) ([strong XKCD 938 energy](https://twitter.com/jasoncrawford/status/1649051496670187520))
*   [New, high-grade cache of rare earth elements was discovered recently](https://www.mining.com/sheep-creek-rare-earth-samples-exceed-highest-grades-in-us/)
*   [SF mayor introduces wide-reaching housing reforms](https://www.sfchronicle.com/sf/article/mayor-breed-introduces-legislation-speed-s-f-s-17904201.php) (via [@anniefryman who has a good explainer thread](https://twitter.com/anniefryman/status/1648447844410626050)). And [how to build a house in a day](https://austinvernon.site/blog/robotconstruction.html) (via [@Vernon3Austin](https://twitter.com/Vernon3Austin/status/1646992959299022850))
*   [Alex Tabarrok on Costo, channeling Voltaire](https://marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2023/04/costco.html)

**Quotes**
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*   [Freeman Dyson: “Nobody builds reactors for fun anymore”](https://twitter.com/whatisnuclear/status/1649138623147806720)
*   [Why it’s more important to “raise the ceiling” rather than the “floor”](https://twitter.com/jasoncrawford/status/1649455653566513171)
*   [“Bureaucracies temporarily suspend the Second Law of Thermodynamics”](https://twitter.com/jasoncrawford/status/1648681672588644354)

**Queries**
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*   [If you heard the term “intellectual entrepreneur,” what would you think it means?](https://twitter.com/jasoncrawford/status/1648337045738205184)
*   [Why is a protein’s shape so important?](https://twitter.com/michael_nielsen/status/1648792012844580864)
*   [Is there a dataset of very granular TFP by industry?](https://twitter.com/MWCvitkovic/status/1649428762621009930)
*   [What’s an example of a proactive regulation or policy that worked well?](https://twitter.com/krishnanrohit/status/1649724750686482432)
*   [Is anyone working on reducing the modern bureaucratic workload on researchers?](https://twitter.com/ruth_hook_/status/1649726375576629248)

**AI**
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*   [The increased supply of intelligence will create more demand for tasks that require intelligence](https://www.notboring.co/p/intelligence-superabundance) (via [@packyM](https://twitter.com/packyM/status/1647948739682660354))
*   [Observations on two years of programming with GitHub Copilot](https://twitter.com/maxkriegers/status/1648036991785906177)
*   [A Turing test would be a dynamic, evolving, adversarial competition](https://twitter.com/jasoncrawford/status/1646329413921849344)
*   [“GPT agents” are cool experiments, but the demos look sort of fake?](https://twitter.com/jasoncrawford/status/1646137323682246658)
*   [Freeman Dyson gave a very short answer to the 2015 Edge question](https://twitter.com/jasoncrawford/status/1645471876179689486)

**AI safety**
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*   [Both AI doomers and anti-doomers believe that the *other* side has a weird conjunction of many dubious arguments](https://twitter.com/jasoncrawford/status/1648091549610266625). Related, [a critique of pure reason](https://twitter.com/mattsclancy/status/1648129243002306562)
*   [Something the government can do now about AI safety: define liability](https://twitter.com/jasoncrawford/status/1646894709032247296)
*   [Scott Aaronson on what to do now about AI risk](https://twitter.com/jasoncrawford/status/1648130305742581761)
*   [Scott Alexander on “not overshooting and banning all AI forever”](https://twitter.com/jasoncrawford/status/1649135217423052811)
*   [Norbert Wiener was concerned about machine alignment problems in the 1960s](https://arbesman.substack.com/p/the-monkeys-paw-norbert-wiener-and)
*   [Will AI be safer if it has cost/efficiency constraints?](https://twitter.com/jasoncrawford/status/1646245316138500098)
*   [What are the implications of LLMs for AI interpretability?](https://twitter.com/jasoncrawford/status/1645431110455664640)
*   [Can Man create a machine so smart he can’t turn it off?](https://twitter.com/jasoncrawford/status/1646880706386116609)

**Other tweets**
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*   [Rocket launches as our aesthetic contribution for the age](https://twitter.com/calebwatney/status/1649083046677692416). (Compare to [this painting](https://twitter.com/jasoncrawford/status/1649136887821377536))
*   [Job posting for a position at Shockley Transistor, 1960](https://twitter.com/_brianpotter/status/1648420481945726977)
*   [John Quincy Adams: hero of progress?](https://twitter.com/jordanschnyc/status/1646181450570682368)
*   [On sending your life in a dramatically better, more ambitious direction](https://twitter.com/Gena_I_Gorlin/status/1646928460680421377)
*   [“The reductionist hypothesis does not by any means imply a ‘constructionist’ one”](https://twitter.com/jasoncrawford/status/1646498824599248896)
*   [One man’s modus ponens is another man’s modus tollens…](https://twitter.com/jasoncrawford/status/1646614607690182657)

**Maps**
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*   [The map of undersea cables is like a wiring diagram for the planet](https://twitter.com/finmoorhouse/status/1649853588485853189). See also [this 1996 piece by Neal Stephenson](https://www.wired.com/1996/12/ffglass/) (non-fiction)

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