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Jason's links and tweets, 2023-01-04

by jasoncrawford1 min read4th Jan 2023No comments

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Jason's links and tweets, 2023-01-04
Here on the Progress Forum (ICYMI)
Announcements
Tweets
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Here on the Progress Forum (ICYMI)

  • Building Fast and Slow Part III: Design of the World Trade Center (Brian Potter)
  • Why pessimism sounds smart (a oldie by yours truly)

Announcements

  • Foresight Institute has a spot for a J1 visa in San Francisco in 2023 (@allisondman)

Tweets

  • One container ship carries more than the whole English fleet did 440 years ago. Also: “What, load boxes ashore and then load the boxes on the ship?”
  • “A fully general argument against ever doing anything that changes anything, ever”
  • Sometimes giving someone a book changes the course of their life

Retweets

  • “We already have the tools to preserve brains fantastically well”
  • So many of the world’s great infrastructure projects would be impossible today
  • The 1930 campaign to stop people from listening to recorded music
  • Who are some good, interesting, up-and-coming, not-yet-famous essayists/bloggers?
  • ChatGPT can correct OCR errors in historical texts
  • California court rules that economic growth as such is an environmental harm (!)
  • A rapid combo test for covid, flu and RSV. Unfortunately illegal in the US
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