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Conversations about effective accelerationism

Jason Crawford pfp

@jasoncrawford.eth

d/acc Day livestream: https://www.youtube.com/live/b45hakfN1cM @vitalik.eth starts us off at 10am Pacific; I'm slated for 10:40

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I'll be speaking at @vitalik.eth's “d/acc Day” at Berkeley on Thursday My talk: “d/acc: The first 150 years.” A whirlwind tour of how society has thought about progress, decentralization and defense over the last century and a half Should be livestreamed and recorded https://lu.ma/o99rcou9

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https://warpcast.com/horsefacts.eth/0x38bb356e

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Jason Crawford pfp

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A visible sonic boom, AI in SaaS, progress on permitting reform, fewer tornado deaths, the closing of the frontier, Rousseau and Kant vs. the Age of Reason, and more https://newsletter.rootsofprogress.org/p/links-and-short-notes-2025-03-10

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What’s the solution e/acc?

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Jason Crawford pfp

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The Techno-Humanist Manifesto, Chapter 5: Solutionism (part 2) There is no tradeoff between health/safety and progress, because health and safety are a part of progress. But the technical work of health and safety has gone mostly unsung https://newsletter.rootsofprogress.org/p/solutionism-part-2

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Thomas Mattimore

i'm fairly optimistic about AI and technology. one thing that legitimately concerns me: enemy nation states using LLM bot armies to spread FUD about freedom and merit and building good things. this is very "cheap" to do now. not sure our societal immune system is ready for it. how can crypto fix this?

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Progress studies in university and high school, a positive supply shock for truth, the hinge of history, Elon in perpetual wartime, Dean Ball on AI liability, Kevin Kelly on the handoff to bots, and more: https://newsletter.rootsofprogress.org/p/links-and-short-notes-2025-03-03

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Max Miner pfp

Can you feel the acceleration?

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Jason Crawford pfp

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Save the date: Progress Conference 2025 will be October 16–19 in Berkeley, CA Hosted by the Roots of Progress Institute together with the Abundance Institute, the Foresight Institute, the Foundation for American Innovation, HumanProgress, the Institute for Humane Studies, and Works in Progress magazine. Speakers and more details to be announced this spring. https://rootsofprogress.org/conference

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I'm curious how this plays out, whether it quickly facilitates deep speculation, or quickly displaces routine corporate procedure (e.g. patent hijinks). phi-4-multimodal looks promising, besides gemini-2. always an open question when mobile reasoning can collaborate en masse. https://arxiv.org/abs/2502.18864

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Jason Crawford pfp

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A crypto investor reached out to me and is interested in “funding a research paper about tokenization as a new mechanism for funding science moonshots.” He has some notes/ideas, but thinks it should be written up as an econ paper He has $40k to devote to this. DC me if interested or if you have a referral

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I gave a talk to high schoolers: The Future of Humanity—And How You Can Help We hear a lot about disaster scenarios, from pandemic diseases to catastrophic climate change. Is humanity doomed? Or can we solve these challenges, and even create a future that is better than the world has ever seen? I make the case for problem-solving, based on both history and theory, and conclude by pointing towards some of the most important problems and opportunities to work on, to create the best possible future for humanity. https://youtu.be/3Sm7qHd_Qy0

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I go away for three weeks and everyone announces everything: Boom first supersonic flight OpenAI Deep Research and GPT-5 roadmap Derek Thompson & Ezra Klein's *Abundance* Charles Mann's “How the System Works” Jason Carman's Story Company Jack Despain Zhou's Center for Educational Progress And much more in my latest links digest: https://newsletter.rootsofprogress.org/p/links-and-short-notes-2025-02-17

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Jason Crawford pfp

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The final videos from Progress Conference 2024 are now on the RPI YouTube channel. The last few added were Chandler Tuttle, Jason Carman, Kanjun Qiu, and Niko McCarty. Enjoy! https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLHL7KfMBqcoB16bU0pp1_8uVPoc6BUREo

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