Links and tweets, 2022-08-09

by Jason Crawford · August 9, 2022 · 1 min read

Links

• The challenge of corrosion and how engineers fight it (YouTube)
• Arnold Kling claims that we over-consume medical services in the US
• The lessons of Xanadu (on my personal blog)

Queries

• Has anybody done serious, detailed work on the mechanisms that drive technological s-curves? (@Ben_Reinhardt)
• Who are the smartest people working on battery storage? Best writing on the topic? (@juliadewahl)
• What are examples of projects getting done really fast by organizations that are normally very slow? (@_brianpotter)
• Is there a Thiel Fellowship type program for PhD candidates to bail out of academia? (@tayroga)

Tweets & retweets

• “Appeal to nature” fallacies are ethically problematic for progress (thread by @RafaRuizdeLira)
• Josh Barro on Matt Yglesias on “induced demand” (@jbarro)
• US immigration as an important-but-not-urgent policy disaster (@sama)
• The US basically stopped building large-scale water infrastructure in the 1980s (@_brianpotter)

Comment: Progress Forum, LessWrong, Reddit