Jason Crawford

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If no one is criticizing you, it's not because your work is unimpeachable: it's because you're not doing/saying anything important, or you don't have a significant audience. Any important work that gets attention will draw criticism.

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“What would a practical abolish-the-FDA-lite policy proposal look like?” 1. Legalize artificial supplements 2. An “experimental drug” category, “where they test for safety… but don’t test for efficacy” https://www.astralcodexten.com/p/beyond-abolish-the-fda

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If we want to see our scientific institutions improve, we need to think about how they can evolve: https://rootsofprogress.org/accelerating-science-through-evolvable-institutions

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Comment on the FDA's proposed rule to regulate lab tests, today is the last day: https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2023/10/03/2023-21662/medical-devices-laboratory-developed-tests

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Vitalik's message to AI developers: “you should build, and build profitable things, but be much more selective and intentional in making sure you are building things that help you and humanity thrive” @vitalik.eth https://vitalik.eth.limo/general/2023/11/27/techno_optimism.html

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The early history of steam power, with interactive animated diagrams! From Hero's engine to Savery's pump, with many highlights in between that aren't in the standard telling of this story Text by Anton Howes, animations by Matt Brown https://rootsofprogress.org/steam-engine-origins

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What I like about e/acc and where it falls short: “You will not find a bigger proponent of science, technology, industry, growth, and progress than me. But I am here to tell you that we can’t yolo our way into it” https://warpcast.com/jasoncrawford.eth/0xdc1684d4

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To build the glorious abundant technological future, we’re going to need more than vibes. We’re going to need ideas https://rootsofprogress.org/neither-ea-nor-e-acc

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Bottlenecks of aging, Starship launches, the ARPA Playbook, and an opportunity to cure your red-green colorblindness: https://rootsofprogress.org/links-digest-2023-11-24

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“Mechanization, the harnessing of energy, is man's answer to slavery” –Buckminster Fuller Map from 1940, when the world had just over 2 billion people, and machines doing the energy equivalent of 37 billion people's worth of work for them:

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Thanksgiving took shape 160 years ago, as a deliberate contrast to haute cuisine, based on “a long tradition of anti-monarchical republican political and culinary thought” https://www.rachellaudan.com/2023/11/american-thanksgiving-as-a-republican-meal-a-repudiation-of-the-high-cuisine-of-monarchies.html

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The Greeks celebrated technē and appreciated the gifts of civilization. “The ancient myth of Prometheus is not a cautionary tale. It is a reminder that technē raises human beings above brutes. It is a myth founded in gratitude.” https://vpostrel.substack.com/p/the-myth-of-prometheus-is-not-a-cautionary

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New book in the works from science writer Ed Yong: The Infinite Extent, “about how animals, plants, microbes, and other forms of life thrive at the edges of space and time, geography and longevity, connectivity and identity” https://buttondown.email/edyong209/archive/the-eds-up-announcing-my-third-book/

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Works in Progress issue 13 is out: https://worksinprogress.co/issue-13 - How mathematics built the modern world - Watt lies beneath (on geothermal) - The asbestos times (yes, it's about asbestos) - and more!

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“We actually can make progress on all fronts at once.… In the 50 years from 1870 to 1920, we had five major revolutions or big breakthroughs on five fronts.” I went on Giuliano Giacaglia’s podcast to discuss progress, stagnation, agriculture, nuclear, and more: https://youtu.be/tY5exPHaHqc

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A “philanthropic menu” of initiatives that “could meaningfully accelerate the advancement of aging science and other life-extending technologies” (Roots of Progress fellows Raiany Romanni and Alex Telford worked on this—congrats!) https://amaranth.foundation/bottlenecks-of-aging

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Techno-optimism, the age of miracles, radical energy abundance, the first letters from an ancient scroll, a 13% decrease in toddler deaths from malaria, and much more https://rootsofprogress.org/links-digest-2023-11-07

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Science since Babylon, Kurzweil on accelerating returns, the unexamined life, and stretchy Victorian fish. What I've been reading the last month: https://rootsofprogress.org/reading-2023-11

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Oxford was founded before the First Crusade. Cambridge before the Magna Carta. Harvard is older than Louis XIV. Universities are some of our most long-lived institutions. They have survived the rise and fall of empires. They are extremely resilient and resistant to change.

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New podcast from @packy and @julia: “Age of Miracles, a narrative podcast where each season, we go into all the nitty gritty details about one sci-fi-sounding industry to understand what it will take to go from idea to innovation to implementation to impact” https://www.notboring.co/p/age-of-miracles

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