# Progress links and tweets, 2023-05-23

**The Progress Forum**
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*   [Why growth in developing countries matters for progress](https://progressforum.org/posts/bbocpGatRDPDmfWxc/the-next-einstein-could-be-from-anywhere-why-developing) (via [@jmazda](https://twitter.com/jmazda/status/1659218205213347850))

**Opportunities**
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*   [Dwarkesh Patel is looking for a physics tutor](https://twitter.com/dwarkesh_sp/status/1659645302184476672)

**Announcements**
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*   [Arnold Ventures is launching a major new infrastructure initiative](https://twitter.com/EconCharlie/status/1658473830254514176)
*   [“Building a Better NIH,” a paper series from IFP and others](https://progress.institute/building-a-better-nih/) (via [@calebwatney](https://twitter.com/calebwatney/status/1658891547427971292))
*   [New book from Daron Acemoglu & Simon Johnson against “techno-optimism.”](https://twitter.com/DAcemogluMIT/status/1658442307220254721) I expect to learn a lot from this, and to find much to agree and to disagree with
*   [Blueprint for a new Great Exhibition](https://www.tenentrepreneurs.org/blueprint-for-a-new-great-exhibition-1) (by [@antonhowes](https://twitter.com/antonhowes/status/1659095235081773056))

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**News**
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*   [RIP Robert Lucas](https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2023-05-16/robert-lucas-economist-who-defied-expectations-dies-at-85). His [most-quoted line](https://twitter.com/leecrawfurd/status/1658232547963285506): “The consequences for human welfare involved in questions \[of economic growth\] are simply staggering: Once one starts to think about them, it is hard to think about anything else.” More from [@srajagopalan](https://twitter.com/srajagopalan/status/1658221341584105475), [@lugaricano](https://twitter.com/lugaricano/status/1658155486053642259), [@singhabhi](https://twitter.com/singhabhi/status/1658202338127912975), and many others.
*   [NASA: Blue Origin will build a second Human Landing System for the Moon](https://twitter.com/SciGuySpace/status/1659569490080702468)
*   [Longevity startup NewLimit raises $40M](https://techcrunch.com/2023/05/16/newlimit-cofounded-by-coinbase-ceo-brian-armstrong-raises-40m-to-extend-life/) (via [@garrytan](https://twitter.com/garrytan/status/1658477474731421700))

**Articles**
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*   [How will AI impact science?](https://michaelnotebook.com/mc2023/) (by [@michael_nielsen](https://twitter.com/michael_nielsen/status/1657908843911999488))
*   [Britain shows what degrowth looks like in practice](https://www.worksinprogress.news/p/degrowth-and-the-monkeys-paw) (via [@s8mb](https://twitter.com/s8mb/status/1658037168823054337)). So does [South Africa](https://twitter.com/AlecStapp/status/1658258004045701120)
*   [King Tut and his meteorite dagger](https://exformation.williamrinehart.com/p/king-tuts-meteorite-dagger-a-weapon) (by [@WillRinehart](https://twitter.com/WillRinehart/status/1658501068953616387))

**Queries**
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*   [A case against AI x-risk by someone who understands the case *for* x-risk well?](https://twitter.com/michael_nielsen/status/1658622154093764610)
*   [Are there any good examples of “nuclearpunk”?](https://twitter.com/_brianpotter/status/1658117244906348550)
*   [Technologies that were expected to have huge impacts but never got cheap?](https://twitter.com/_brianpotter/status/1658503033251086340)
*   [Which public figure combines intellectual rigor and moral forcefulness?](https://twitter.com/RichardMCNgo/status/1660212236949008386)
*   [Who decides what kinds of business are good for private equity?](https://twitter.com/eric_is_weird/status/1658654033559666689)

**Tweets**
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*   [What if they gave an Industrial Revolution and nobody came?](https://twitter.com/jasoncrawford/status/1658927630693855233) (the intro to my [recent post](https://rootsofprogress.org/robert-allen-british-industrial-revolution), ICYMI). Also: [*The American Information Revolution in Global Perspective*](https://twitter.com/jasoncrawford/status/1659611924793901097)
*   [How people without research training can push forward the frontier of technology](https://twitter.com/Ben_Reinhardt/status/1658646313376817152)
*   [Everything has to be invented. Even spaces and punctuation](https://twitter.com/jasoncrawford/status/1658121292392853504)
*   [How to fight antibiotic resistance](https://twitter.com/jasoncrawford/status/1658169646464237568). Also, [human DNA can be sequenced from the air](https://twitter.com/NikoMcCarty/status/1658415242106511360)
*   [Nuclear fracking](https://twitter.com/_brianpotter/status/1658114552620367872) (!) But, [our nation’s nuclear reactor laboratory has gone 56 years without building a new reactor](https://twitter.com/elidourado/status/1659213671036518400)
*   [Landmark Experiments in Twentieth-Century Physics](https://twitter.com/curiouswavefn/status/1658271200068665344)
*   [Self-imposed challenges (sports, games, music) are sufficient for human flourishing](https://twitter.com/RichardMCNgo/status/1658730195858358272)
*   [Regulatory costs explain ~⅓ of the increase in market power in the last 50 years](https://twitter.com/AlecStapp/status/1658115860576317440). Also, [whatever AI regulations we write today will sound ridiculous 50 years from now](https://twitter.com/kfury/status/1658609632431194112)
*   [Learning exactly how San Francisco governance works](https://twitter.com/danielgolliher/status/1658324173704364032). Related, [most people pay no attention to the deficit or how it constrains political choices](https://twitter.com/asymmetricinfo/status/1659173774602764289)
*   [The Story of Education, Chapter 1: Primates to Primary Schools](https://twitter.com/mbateman/status/1657371112026824705)
*   [Why some rich people keep working hard](https://twitter.com/harjtaggar/status/1657972589514592258)
*   [A mark of the master craftsman](https://twitter.com/jasoncrawford/status/1659014713966051328)
*   [Excellent reply guys](https://twitter.com/visakanv/status/1659671499274600448)

**Charts**
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*   [Different types of single- and multi-causal explanations](https://twitter.com/jasoncrawford/status/1658147757096312832)

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