Jason Crawford

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Roots of Progress is hiring a full-time, in-house event manager to run our annual Progress Conference and other events: https://rootsofprogress.notion.site/Event-Manager-13f543614e9780458f61d528628a1473

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1901: • federal budget $0.35B • national debt ~$1B • largest US co market cap: $1.4B Today: • federal budget $6.75T • national debt $36T • largest US co market cap: $3.7T (not adjusted for inflation, the point is the ratios)

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Reminder: this is taking place in a few hours Matt is a great person to ask questions about education, alternative teaching methods, and learning styles Especially good for anyone with kids approaching schooling age!

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The first progress conference was a huge success. Progress Conference 2025 will happen next October. More info early next year! Also, we’re hiring an Event Manager to help us make this an annual event and to run other in-person events: https://newsletter.rootsofprogress.org/p/progress-conference-reflections-and

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You know what, I get it

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The Roots of Progress links digest is back! Announcements from Astera, Foresight, Works in Progress, and more; plus other links, quotes and little notes for paid subscribers: https://newsletter.rootsofprogress.org/p/links-and-short-notes-2024-11-21

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Are vector spaces in LLMs a new medium for representing information? Information was first represented on paper, then analog signals, then bits. Each medium let us do fundamentally new things with information Can we think of AI this way? Has anyone pursued this line of thought?

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The dictator's dilemma

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“He who makes a colossal fortune in the hosiery trade, and by his energy has succeeded in reducing the price of woollen goods by the thousandth part of a penny in the pound—this man is worth ten professional philanthropists.” Samuel Butler, Erewhon

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“2 + 2 = 5” was a literal Communist slogan I always assumed Orwell had made it up as an over-the-top ridiculous example, but he got it from Eugene Lyons's book *Assignment in Utopia*, which he wrote after he became disillusioned with Communism during his time in Russia. The slogan was supposed to be a clever way of expressing optimism that they would achieve a five-year plan in four years, but Lyons used it to symbolize the Soviets' “defiance of logic.”

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“Honored compatriot, we come, writers, painters, sculptors, architects, passionate lovers of the beauty of Paris—a beauty until now unspoiled—to protest with all our might, with all our outrage… of the useless and monstrous Eiffel Tower” https://www.maximumnewyork.com/p/naysayer-deference

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Time saved is life gained!

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He's interested. How to get in touch?

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The Eiffel Tower seems quaint and charming now, but it was the tallest structure in the world for 40 years. Jerry Pournelle says that at the end of the 19th century, it restored French national pride:

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Ask and ye shall receive? https://warpcast.com/jasoncrawford.eth/0x89bb5d69

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And today Futarchy launched. Surprised if you don't already know about this, but just in case: https://warpcast.com/jasoncrawford.eth/0x89bb5d69

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Launch thread on birdapp: https://x.com/_futarchy/status/1855555754037760356

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A futarchy implementation, built on Ethereum, just launched. Robin Hanson is Chief Scientific Officer: https://futarchy.fi/

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From prediction markets to info finance: https://vitalik.eth.limo/general/2024/11/09/infofinance.html

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The voters banned banning banning banning charging too high rent. (To be clear I'm in favor of this, the best way to keep rent low is buidl buidl buidl)

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