Links and tweets, 2023-01-04

by Jason Crawford · January 4, 2023 · 1 min read

Progress Forum

• Building Fast and Slow Part III: Design of the World Trade Center (Brian Potter)
• Why pessimism sounds smart (a oldie by yours truly)

Announcements

• Foresight Institute has a spot for a J1 visa in San Francisco in 2023 (@allisondman)

Tweets

• One container ship carries more than the whole English fleet did 440 years ago. Also: “What, load boxes ashore and then load the boxes on the ship?”
• “A fully general argument against ever doing anything that changes anything, ever”
• Sometimes giving someone a book changes the course of their life

Retweets

• “We already have the tools to preserve brains fantastically well”
• So many of the world’s great infrastructure projects would be impossible today
• The 1930 campaign to stop people from listening to recorded music
• Who are some good, interesting, up-and-coming, not-yet-famous essayists/bloggers?
• ChatGPT can correct OCR errors in historical texts
• California court rules that economic growth as such is an environmental harm (!)
• A rapid combo test for covid, flu and RSV. Unfortunately illegal in the US

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