Jason Crawford

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I was initially skeptical about claims of stagnation, but I was eventually convinced by a systematic survey of the evidence. Progress has not ground to a halt, but in the US at least, it has slowed relative to its peak in the late 19th to mid-20th century: https://newsletter.rootsofprogress.org/p/the-flywheel-part-2

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Where is the equivalent of the YIMBY movement for healthcare? Who is pointing out the gross violation of economic wisdom and common sense, or campaigning for reform against the worst inefficiencies? This field is wide open, and some smart writer or savvy activist should step in and fill the vacuum. https://newsletter.rootsofprogress.org/p/where-is-the-yimby-movement-for-healthcare

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Nice. BTW, not sure how you're generating your HTML, but you have some spurious anchor tags in your text:

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Applications now open for the 2025 Roots of Progress Blog-Building Intensive! Improve your writing skills, learn from leading progress builders and intellectuals, and publish essays about progress: https://rootsofprogress.org/fellowship

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Impossible sci-fi nonsense, the shadow of the Great War, heliocentrism, the bottom-up abundance agenda, institutional sclerosis, and much more: https://newsletter.rootsofprogress.org/p/links-and-short-notes-2025-04-23

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Why was progress so slow, for so long? And were the last few centuries a fluke, a lucky windfall of progress, after which we should expect a regression to the mean of slow growth? Or were they part of a trend that we can expect to continue? https://newsletter.rootsofprogress.org/p/the-flywheel

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As I recall, their plan was literally that they would print out the emails and a postman would deliver them to you in your mailbox.

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Reminder that rare earths aren’t rare. Processing capacity is rare.

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We just launched the Network School Fellowship. Anyone from anywhere can apply for $100k in funding. Apply online at ns.com. https://x.com/balajis/status/1913280710531826057

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Announcing Progress Conference 2025! Oct 16-19 in Berkeley, CA Speakers include Sam Altman, Tyler Cowen, Jennifer Pahlka, and Blake Scholl Last year several people said it was the best conference they had ever attended, full stop (!) Applications are open now! https://rootsofprogress.org/conference

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“Stopping climate change” is the wrong goal. It is an anti-human, anti-agency framing, focused on negating the impacts of human activity. The techno-humanist framing is that humanity should create *climate control* https://newsletter.rootsofprogress.org/p/we-should-install-a-thermostat-on

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My tentative bottom line is: solar + batteries can be great for specific applications that don’t need very high availability; and they can work as part of an overall system of supplying power to the grid; but they won’t supply all power to the grid in the foreseeable future. My current, partial understanding of a tricky question: https://newsletter.rootsofprogress.org/p/how-much-does-it-cost-to-back-up

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The 150-year history of d/acc, a $120M progress fund, fertility on demand, 19th-century kids' sci-fi, the real lesson of Cassandra’s curse, giving the Devil the benefit of law, and more: https://newsletter.rootsofprogress.org/p/links-and-short-notes-2025-03-18

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Here's the punchline from my talk for @vitalik.eth's d/acc Day: How each ~generation of the 20th century scored on the three core principles of d/acc. The talk was a whirlwind tour of how society has thought about progress, decentralization & risk over the last 150 years. Starts here, runs about 7 minutes: https://youtube.com/live/b45hakfN1cM?t=2939s

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Catch the livestream/recording: https://www.youtube.com/live/b45hakfN1cM

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Here @cqb: https://www.youtube.com/live/b45hakfN1cM

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Found it, @kpx! Starts in ~20 min, I'm on in an hour https://www.youtube.com/live/b45hakfN1cM

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