Links and tweets, 2022-08-31

by Jason Crawford · August 31, 2022 · 1 min read

Links

• The Breakthrough Institute is hiring directors to run its new DC office (via @atrembath)
• Stable Diffusion: an AI image generator you can download and run (via @elidourado)

Queries

• Why didn’t clockwork technology get applied to other practical purposes for hundreds of years?
• Who are the best economic historians that focus a lot on technology? (@_brianpotter)
• What questions in economics have been “settled” since 1945? (@dkedrosky)

Quotes

• We should all have a little more awe and gratitude for the amazing world we live in
• In 1809, books or carpets in the home were considered luxuries
• Voltaire on the religious tolerance engendered by capitalism

Tweets

• Let’s retire the phrase “lifted out of poverty”
• Negativity should be productive

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