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Dec 6, 2019
I was originally pretty skeptical with @tylercowen's call for "progress studies." However I have more recently chan..
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Tanner Greer
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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
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Nicolas Colin
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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
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Nicolas Colin
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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
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Nicolas Colin
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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
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Patrick Fessenbecker
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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
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David Chapman
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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
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Noah Smith
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