Progress

Patrick Collison
"In July 2019, Tyler Cowen and I wrote a piece for the Atlantic entitled We Need a New Science of Progress. (It was in some ways a sequel to an earlier article t...

"In July 2019, Tyler Cowen and I wrote a piece for the Atlantic entitled We Need a New Science of Progress. (It was in some ways a sequel to an earlier article that Michael Nielsen and I wrote together.) I'm collecting some of the responses to it below." - Patrick Collison

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Join: https://meetup.com/52LivingIdeas to Attend our Meetups LIVE and see upcoming Meetups. Come learn about the newly constituted field of Progress Studies from Jason Crawford of https://www.RootsofProgress.org “Progress itself is understudied. By “progress,” we mean the combination of economic, t
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Progress, as defined by Tyler Cowen and Patrick Collison, as “the combination of economic, technological, scientific, cultural, and organizational advancement that has transformed our lives and raised standards of living over the past couple of centuries”.
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Tyler Cowen and Patrick Collison wrote two months ago a piece in The Atlantic calling for a new discipline, Progress Studies that would be very much applied and focused on improving the human condition. In my previous links post I linked to no less than eight manifestos or responses of some kind tha
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When I read through Patrick Collison and Tyler Cowen’s article in The Atlantic calling for a new science of progress that studies “successful people, organizations, institutions, policies, and cultures,” my first reaction was, yes of course, that needs to be done. And then the negative responses cam
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This summer, Patrick Collison and Tyler Cowen called for a new science of progress. Let’s study, they say, “the combination of economic, technological, scientific, cultural, and organizational advancement that has transformed our lives and raised standards of living over the past couple of centuries
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Current academic research – into the impact of new technologies, the economics of innovation, and the quality of management, for example – may be providing ever more pieces of the puzzle. But many crucial questions about economic progress remain unanswered, and others have not yet even been properly
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Even if it proves to be an inexact science, the effort is worth undertaking.
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Tyler Cowen and Patrick Collison recently published an article in The Atlantic calling for a new discipline of “progress studies”. It met with an enthusiastic response from many people and has galvanized a small movement, which now has a Slack group and last Wednesday held its first meetup (hosted a
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The quest for human progress and flourishing has always been at the center of civilization. People always seek to live better lives and provide a better life for their kids. In the process, they seek to live lives of meaning and aspire to fulfill their potential. Although societies are made up of he
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In a recent piece for The Atlantic, Stripe co-founder Patrick Collison and Marginal Revolution author Tyler Cowen called for a new discipline of Progress Studies, whose success will come from its ability to identify effective progress-increasing interventions and the extent to which they are adopted
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Earlier this week, Patrick Collison and Tyler Cowen published an article calling for a new field, Progress Studies, where progress means “the combination of economic, technological, scientific, cultural, and organizational advancement that has transformed our lives and raised standards of living ove
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Every once in awhile, an established social scientist proclaims the need for a new interdisciplinary approach to solving the world's most pressing problems. This week's entry comes from Tyler Cowen, writing with Patrick Collison. Their objective? Progress Studies. By “progress,” we mean the combinat
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Patrick Collison and Tyler Cowen say that we need to study how to achieve faster progress. But they seem to pre-suppose the answers.
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I found this essay inspiring and important.

The pace of progress in science and technology has slowed, for reasons we partly understand. We also know some factors that appear to accelerate them. Learning more, and applying it, is urgent.

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After seeing a bunch of people get mad at this editorial proposing a "Progress Studies" field, I've concluded that the critics are wrong; an interdisciplinary program aimed at figuring out how to boost the rate of scientific discovery would have value.

www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2019/07/we-need-new-science-progress/594946/
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@patrickc @Noahpinion Hi Patrick and Noah -- if you don't mind two cents from a humanist, I think there's a key concern that needs to be addressed: whether "progress studies" can be broad enough to include competing definitions of progress. And if not, then whether it should form a scholarly agenda.
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1/ Can't agree more ▶️ Why did the Industrial Revolution start when it did? Why did Silicon Valley happen in California rather than Japan or Boston? Human progress is understudied, and @patrickc and @tylercowen want to change that.

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1/ @colindickey I read your article ⤵️. Thank you!

Cc @matthewclifford @Noahpinion

To me, the feeling of agreement with @patrickc & @tylercowen question flows from the introduction of Joe Studwell's "How Asia Works".

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