Patrick Collison

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Irish billionaire entrepreneur. Co-founder and CEO of Stripe. Winner of the 41st Young Scientist and Technology Exhibition in 2005. Founder of Fast Grants.

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Tweet Jan 1, 2022

Happy new year! Today, a mini-tweetstorm of some of the things I've said and written over the past decade, and what I think about those subjects today.

by Vitalik Buterin

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Tweet Jul 4, 2022

It should be much easier to start and scale an online business across Europe. We spoke to 200 startups on @Stripe to better understand the realities they’re facing and the policy challenges holding them back. Here’s what we found 👇stripe.com/guides/e

by Sandro Gianella

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Tweet Jan 10, 2022

43. So no, a COO would not improve the bureaucracy. Successful bureaucracies globally do not work like that; they do the opposite.

by Alon (they/them)

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Tweet Sep 22, 2021

"Inconsistency in Conference Peer Review: Revisiting the 2014 NeurIPS Experiment" We logged the publication/citation status of over 1000 papers that were originally submitted to the 2014 conference. Write up on ArXiv here: arxiv.org/abs/2109.09774

by Neil Lawrence

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Tweet Jun 4, 2021

THE STORY OF EUROPE'S CORPORATE DECLINE 20 years ago, 41 of the world's 100 most valuable companies were in Europe. Now the figure is down to 15. What on earth happened? We take a look at this in this week's @TheEconomist cover package. www.econo

by Stanley Pignal

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Tweet Dec 6, 2019

I was originally pretty skeptical with @tylercowen's call for "progress studies." However I have more recently chan..

by Tanner Greer

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Tweet Aug 7, 2019

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". medium.com/@colindickey_4

by Nicolas Colin

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Tweet Aug 6, 2019

1/ @matthewclifford pointed to this ⤵️ in his last newsletter. The reason for the misunderstanding here is that almost none of the relevant work that's done by academia is conveyed outside of the academic world, where it could make a difference in po

by Nicolas Colin

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Tweet Aug 4, 2019

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. www.theatlantic.c

by Nicolas Colin

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Tweet Aug 1, 2019

@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 n

by Patrick Fessenbecker

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Tweet Aug 1, 2019

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. twitter.co

by David Chapman

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Tweet Jul 31, 2019

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 valu

by Noah Smith

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