How can the public + technologists better help scientists? How can we remove research and academic debt so that the public can better understand productionize scientific findings?
San Francisco
Research SWE
"Mathematics, Economics, Computer Science"
Google Brain
jeremynixon.github.io
Understanding and Optimizing Creative Processes
London
ML Engineer / Researcher
Aerospace & mechanical engineering
Aiden.ai
nintil.com
@ArtirKel
Suggest me research topics and they may end up researched and published at length in my blog
Metascience
History of science and technology
Progress definition and measurement
I like efficiency
How can science and engineering work better? What, who, how to fund? Coordination problems. What affects the rate of progress in different areas
South Bay
Software Engineer
Economics @ Warwick University
Sirona Medical
lifeofapai.com
twitter.com/ani_pai
Let's find ways to develop OKRs around progress
I did my thesis on global innovation and productivity growth so I can give some knowledge on how we should go about quantifying progress.
Philosophy of Technology
History of science and technology
Robust decision-making under uncertainty
Metascience
I want science fiction to become reality.
How can we escape the Great Stagnation and make more people interested in solving the hard problems that we used to.
San Francisco
Co-Founder, Head of Product
😆
On Deck
beondeck.com
http://twitter.com/julianweisser
I can help you find a co-founder, teammates, and experts to help you build your business.
Visions of the future
Mechanism design / incentive design
Cultural components of change-making
History of industries
Progress definition and measurement
Philosophy of Technology
Metascience
I'm curious about how the world works and what that means for inventing the future.
San Francisco
University of Pennsylvania
@vishrutarya
Philosophy of Technology
Mechanism design / incentive design
Existential risks
Researcher
PhD Canditate
ETH Zurich
https://ethz.academia.edu/TobiasAHuber
https://twitter.com/TobiasAHuber
What is the nature of technological and scientific progress is one of the most important questions of our age. Understanding what catalyzes economic growth and technological innovation is critical for re-accelerating progress.
How can we re-accelerate technological progress?
San Francisco
Policy Analyst
Institute for Energy Research
https://twitter.com/jordanmcgillis
San Francisco
Senior Engineering Manager
BS Computer Science
Flexport
https://rootsofprogress.org
@jasoncrawford
Help me find support to take a sabbatical from tech and write my blog full-time
Help navigating the world of Silicon Valley startups/VCs
History of science and technology
History of industries
Philosophy of Technology
Human progress is a moral imperative, but progress is not automatic or inevitable, and indeed may be at risk. I want to save it and keep it going
How did we get here? Why did it take so long? And how can we keep it going?
software engineering, engineering management, startups, history of science, history of technology, blogger, speaker, writer
San Francisco
Founder of Woolf / Faculty of Philosophy at Oxford & member Wolfson College
PhD (Philosophy)
Woolf University / University of Oxford
https://woolf.university/
@JoshuaBroggi
A quorum of interested academics to launch an accredited programme in Progress Studies for Woolf University.
Woolf University can accredit undergraduate or graduate-level studies in Progress, using the most sophisticated and widely recognised form of accreditation (ECTS). More broadly, Woolf can provide a platform to organise and deliver these accredited courses and research seminars, largely online in the Oxford tutorial format of small groups.
Cultural components of change-making
Philosophy of Technology
Progress definition and measurement
My research on progress over the last five years led to my choice to found Woolf University, which is a global, collegiate university designed to accelerate human progress, and to accelerate the methods of human education.
At the University of Oxford, I have been working on the definition and measurement of human progress (unpublished, mostly in philosophy).
(1) The extent to which definitions of human progress depend upon cultural assumptions that change over time. (2) Whether/why/how the beneficiaries of progress adopt a moral obligation to guard and further advance progress on a similar definition.
Other
Assistant Teaching Professor
PhD, MSc, Diploma in Economics; BS in Physics; BA in Religious Studies
Iowa State University - Department of Economics - Agricultural Entrepreneurship Initiative
matt-clancy.com
@mattsclancy
Literature on modeling innovation!
I know a lot of the literature on the economics of innovation (goes double for any intersection with agriculture); happy to help...
Metascience
Philosophy of Technology
History of science and technology
Mechanism design / incentive design
Longstanding interest in innovation; trained as an economist, but have always felt there is so much to learn from other disciplines; especially history, evolutionary biology, computer science, psychology.
Are there useful models of innovation, and what can they tell us? How do we design good incentives for innovation?
agriculture
San Francisco
Software Engineer
stealth co
https://lamaalrajih.com
https://twitter.com/lamaalrajih
I'm working on a multi-part research project focused on the slowdown of construction over the last 100-150 years, specifically focusing on entitlements, labor, technology, and economic events. If you have any relevant info, please send it to me!
If you're applying for an Emergent Ventures grant related to progress studies (or otherwise), I'm more than happy to help give feedback :)
Progress definition and measurement
History of industries
Robust decision-making under uncertainty
History of science and technology
Other - please write in "research questions" block!
I want to help replicate what drove progress in the past to speed up progress in the present + future.
Why has construction slowed over the last 150 years?
San Francisco
Former cofounder/CTO
MS Computer Science
Formerly Tule Technologies
https://twitter.com/jefflab
I would like to see a "lab of labs" to run cohort tests on different incentive structures for science funding (analogous to the Pierre Azoulay NIH/HHMI study, but with more radical permutations).
Entrepreneur-in-Residence
Caltech - Mechanical Engineering and History; Cornell - Space Robotics
Entrepreneur First
benjaminreinhardt.com
twitter.com/Ben_Reinhardt
I'm looking for areas where progress has been slow because of systematic constraints (like fusion being limited less by physics than by funding, or batteries only incrementally advancing because we never look at the package as a whole)
Connections in startup/VC world, boots on the ground in Singapore, random project ideas, moral support
Metascience
Visions of the future
Mechanism design / incentive design
Other - please write in "research questions" block!
Boston
Owner
College dropout
Nekhbet Resources
twitter.com/sean_pawley
Better understanding of the causes of the industrial revolution and (more importantly) why didn't it occur earlier?
Understanding of finance in developing world, agricultural tech, etc
Visions of the future
Existential risks
Mechanism design / incentive design
Cultural components of change-making
History of industries
Economics can only take you so far. I want to see if this group can give useful answers and book recommendations.
Why didn't the industrial revolution occur earlier?
San Francisco
CEO
Some math/physics @ MIT
Stripe
https://patrickcollison.com
https://twitter.com/patrickc
Advice. May consider grants over time.
I think it could be one of the most important fields in the world!
How should science funding be reformed?
San Francisco
Machine Learning Platform Engineer
Yale University, Computer Science ('19, originally '17 before gap years)
Twitter
https://twitter.com/mavysavydav
Ideas/insights on anything related to learning theory.
I think a lot about tech x society. Experiences as a theater actor. Thinking about ideas from a non-Western point of view.
Metascience
Philosophy of Technology
History of science and technology
Progress definition and measurement
Robust decision-making under uncertainty
Visions of the future
Existential risks
Mechanism design / incentive design
Cultural components of change-making
Outside of aggregate analysis of progress, I’m also interested in learning theory and whether insights could be applied to large swaths of the population. On the side of enabling collective action/agreement, I’m interested in interfaces between the public and system/institution/policy creators that would permit for trust without the need for explicit, direct appeal to the first order sensibilities of the populace (e.g. if there’s some system for progress that’s not intuitively effective, how can the populace be convinced of its effectiveness in a sustained way).
San Francisco
Associate Product Manager
B.A. in Computer Science - Northwestern University
Google
www.sehmon.com
https://twitter.com/sehmonb
Philosophy of Technology
Existential risks
Other
Venture Partner
BA Mathematics
Contrary Capital
https://keeganm.org
https://twitter.com/keegan_mcnamara
literature references, discussion, genuinely useful networking
literature references, discussion, genuinely useful networking
Existential risks
Cause prioritization
I want the future of humanity to go as well as possible, and I want to help us avoid actions that have massive potential downsides (x-risks and s-risks).
I'm interested in identifying x and s-risks, and in putting together cogent plans of how to avoid them (usually game-theoretic). I'm broadly interested in all of progress studies so am happy to read answers to really any major research questions.
Other
PhD studen
PhD (about halfway)
Auckland University of Technology
Robust decision-making under uncertainty
History of science and technology
Metascience
Existential risks
Resilience to bad faith actors
History of immortality
Other
CTO
MSc Physics
Navega Strategies
https://twitter.com/szferi
Research topics and collaboration
Quantitative Research and Modeling Capabilities
Progress definition and measurement
Metascience
Robust decision-making under uncertainty
History of science and technology
If we better understand the factors that drives progress then we can make peoples life even better.
How to progress in low economics growth environment? (How can research be done effectively outside of academics environment?)
San Francisco
Investor
Coatue Management
coatue.com
Philosophy of Technology
Robust decision-making under uncertainty
History of science and technology
History of industries
San Francisco
Investor
University of Oxford, BA History
Bloomberg Beta
@lisawehden
History of science and technology
Philosophy of Technology
History of industries
Cultural components of change-making
Progress definition and measurement
I've spent a long time thinking about socialism and 'progress' from the 1960s - 1990s - particularly how government-led initiatives can transform society. I'm interested in definitions of progress and how to perception changes over time.
San Francisco
Researcher
BS + MS in CS from Georgia Tech
https://cepp.ch
https://twitter.com/WBINVD
Gaining better insight into progress of patient care and insurance liability in hospitals.
China (I’ve worked at large and small companies and speak fluently). Anything related to neural imaging and decision making research.
Metascience
Cause prioritization
Mechanism design / incentive design
I want to work on the progress of Neuro-imaging and to do so I want to better understand the incentives of progress. I’d like to gain insight into whether people are more driven to solve problems and let the technology catch up or vice versa.
Computer Science & Business Administration @ Berkeley
NetSuite
https://twitter.com/helenyfan
How can we get the general public appreciate more about science?
Building platforms and developer products
History of science and technology
Progress definition and measurement
Robust decision-making under uncertainty
Metascience
How can we accelerate the progress of science?
San Francisco
Independent
enthea.net
https://twitter.com/MilanGriffes
Metascience
Visions of the future
Cause prioritization
Mechanism design / incentive design
Existential risks
Robust decision-making under uncertainty
psychedelics
Other
BA in History and Economics from Harvard University; MA in Economics from the University of Michigan
https://www.linkedin.com/in/bkavoussi
twitter.com/bkavoussi
Being involved in the progress studies community
I would like to help however I can. Writing, research, promotion, organizing, providing ideas and suggestions, etc.
Visions of the future
History of science and technology
Philosophy of Technology
History of industries
I think progress is one of the most important moral imperatives of our time.
I'm still developing this.
Other
Director, Innovation Policy
PhD Management & Technology, School of Business, The George Washington University; BA, International Relations, Stanford University (w/honors in Science, Technology & Society)
Research Triangle Institute
https://www.rti.org/expert/jeffrey-m-alexander
https://twitter.com/techiewonk
Always on the lookout for easily-digestible, graphical models of innovation, economic growth, and progress
Lots of references from technology & innovation management, science policy, innovation studies, and similar fields
Metascience
Philosophy of Technology
Robust decision-making under uncertainty
History of science and technology
Cultural components of change-making
Progress definition and measurement
Viewing "progress" as contributing to the health, prosperity, and well-being of humans, it seems like this should be the desired outcome of science, research, and policy. So why are we so bad at it?
What accounts for regional differences in the rate of progress? How do we define progress in terms more relevant to the world population?
#innovationmetrics
New York
Product Manager
MBA @ Wharton, BA in Classics @ Harvard
https://twitter.com/nikhilmulani
Eager to connect with others taking an "applied" approach to progress studies
Happy to be a sounding board for technical or commercial ideas, or to share my experiences in product, data science as applied to healthcare, gov, etc
Robust decision-making under uncertainty
Existential risks
In the interests of ensuring I'm spending my time well, I'm always looking to further refine my understanding of the most effective ways of creating progress (especially when it comes to methods for increasing individual autonomy)
What are successful examples of private-sector solutions to longer-term and less-visible risks throughout history? What were the key factors to these successes?
San Francisco
CEO
B.S. Computer Science
Clover Network, Inc.
https://www.clover.com
https://twitter.com/beatty
Ideas, community
Angel investment, advice and connections to entrepreneurs
Mechanism design / incentive design
Progress definition and measurement
To understand how to best use my company and my other resources to the largest possible positive effect.
Other
Student
undergraduate degree -philosophy and math (in progress)
UCLA
rileywilson.net
not applicable
Connect with other like-minded folks in the Los Angeles area.
lots of enthusiasm
Philosophy of Technology
Cultural components of change-making
Metascience
Cowen's arguments in Stubborn Attachments moved me. I have a deep concern for the future and want to understand how we can make it better.
Do we have a satisfactory account of moral/cultural progress?
San Francisco
BA, MS, Physics
briantimar.com
https://twitter.com/briantimar
History of industries
Visions of the future
History of science and technology
I want progress. In particular I want to build a great company, and this is probably made easier by learning about how technologies have developed in the past, and how efficient organizations have exploited them. I also love learning about how things were invented -- it's obvious, yet fascinating that *everything* has to be invented!
London
Co-founder
These days mainly political science/urban zoning/spatial economics. Original degrees were math/law and I also studied finance.
London YIMBY
londonyimby.org
twitter.com/johnrmyers
People with the same research question – how do we engineer institutional change
I spend nearly 100% of my time working to fix urban zoning atm.
Other - please write in "research questions" block!
It's about the most important question facing the human race.
How do we engineer institutional change to pick the low-hanging fruit that could raise welfare by 50% without any new physical technologies?
London
CEO
Mechanical Engineering - Masters
The Engineering Company
theengineeringcompany.com
https://twitter.com/parikshat7?lang=en
Fun people, good chat, review and debate ideas
review and debate ideas
Metascience
Philosophy of Technology
Visions of the future
History of science and technology
History of industries
How we can form models of progress, and then use them to inform teams currently working on progress. E.G PARC and Microsoft Early days -> A current startup
why some industries make progress and others dont, the role of tooling and abstractions in progress. Progress patters in history, is progress guaranteed/determined? , technologies that help and hinder progress,
industry, PARC, Bell Labs, abstraction, tools, history, fate, determinism ,
Other
Chief Privacy Officer
Political Science Degree
OB1
http://sampatt.com/
https://twitter.com/SamuelPatt
Philosophy of Technology
Visions of the future
History of industries
Existential risks
History of science and technology
I'm familiar with the recent literature and highly supportive of promoting the importance of progress. I want to help by providing my knowledge of emerging technology as well as my voiceover / video production skills.
Environmental issues primarily.
Technology Bitcoin Voiceover
London
Masters student (International Political Economy)
University of St Andrews
King's College London
https://twitter.com/F_McCullough
I'm studying economic development and the impact that political regimes have on it, and vice versa, so it closely relates to these questions
Mechanism design and incentive design, political economy related questions
Other
Researcher
Economics
Startup Societies Foundation
https://www.startupsocieties.org/
Cause prioritization
Progress definition and measurement
Existential risks
Visions of the future
Robust decision-making under uncertainty
I've been heavily involved with the social innovation center at my university and have come to realize that so many people I work and talk with have an implied theory of progress. However, this theory was not developed rigorously or consciously and is applied inconsistently. I am interested in progress studies because I would like to develop for myself an empirical theory of progress to guide my philosophy and career.
Director, Product Innovation
PhD Machine Learning, UCC
Mastercard
simonoregan.com
https://twitter.com/Simon_O_Regan
Boston
Grad student (economics)
MIT
basilhalperin.com
twitter.com/basilhalperin
Other
Operations Analyst
MBA
Morgan Advanced Materials
Mechanism design / incentive design
Visions of the future
Progress definition and measurement
Other
VP of Product
BS Geography, University of Florida
Fulcrum
https://www.colemanm.org
https://twitter.com/colemanm
Reading a lot of works that fall in line with motivations of this community. Interested in how we can generate a more positive-minded community on constructive conversation and ideas.
Other
CEO
TopScore
www.liamrosen.com
Metascience
Cause prioritization
Cultural components of change-making
Other
Customer Success Manager
BA Economics and Philosophy
Refinitiv
bradjohansen.com
twitter.com/brad_johansen
Mechanism design / incentive design
Robust decision-making under uncertainty
Cause prioritization
I am interested in progress studies because I think a science of change is fundamental to accelerating equitable growth in the world.
What causes growth? How do natural resources impact growth? How do movements grow?
San Francisco
Software Developer
Masters in Computer Science
AspireIQ
People to talk about productivity issues in tech and in the economy in general.
History of industries
Philosophy of Technology
History of science and technology
I think a lot of the problems we face ultimately bottom out in not being productive enough e.g. climate change. Answering the question of why on some metrics progress has slowed and what to do about it is probably one of the most important issues humanity faces.
How to improve productivity within the tech industry.
software productivity developer
Other
Scientific consultant and independent researcher
Postdoc (Computational optics), PhD (Neuroscience), BE (Mechatronics)
I'd like to find out more effective ways for scientific discovery to shape the future.
London
Historian
PhD from King's College London
n/a
https://antonhowes.weebly.com/
https://twitter.com/antonhowes
History of science and technology
Cultural components of change-making
Progress definition and measurement
Focus of my research on history of innovation.
Causes of the British Industrial Revolution
History
Other
Founder
BA: Musical Theatre
Theatrisoft / Part Time Entrepreneurship Professor - BYU - Provo
www.theatrisoft.com
Thought provoking original discussion / Definite Optimism
I can give what I hope to receive as well as any help with event management or any arts management needs you may for may not have
Metascience
Philosophy of Technology
Robust decision-making under uncertainty
Cultural components of change-making
Progress definition and measurement
Cause prioritization
Visions of the future
Mechanism design / incentive design
Our postmodern world has so often veered into catastrophe in the name of progress, especially in the 20th century. A space dedicated to debating, defining and engineering human progress is needed lest we repeat the mistakes of our fathers, destroying the world in the name of something that we cannot consistently define.
I would be happy to answer any questions on robust decision making, and Metascience.
San Francisco
Head of Analytics and Machine Learning
Carnegie Mellon Universities
FogHorn Systems
https://abhisharmab.github.io/
https://twitter.com/abhisharma_b
Metascience
History of science and technology
Visions of the future
Robust decision-making under uncertainty
Cultural components of change-making
We haven't made BIG groundbreaking progress since 1970 even though we have more resources, more connectivity, more communication, and more sharing.
Where is the next Einstein? Is hyper specialization a root-cause of reduction in speed and amount of progress?
I'm interested in better understanding:
1) technologies that are force multipliers for other technologies
2) ways to focus as much human attention + GDP as possible on (1)
3) novel funding and incentive structures to enable (2)
Other
Tech Lead
CS major, Economics + Maths minor
Omnicuris
https://twitter.com/nirlendu
Despite all the progress we have made so far, people are not necessarily more happy. Why?
Climate change, AI will take over us if we don't act soon. Current pace of progress is not enough. How can we optimise for this?
Other
Researcher
BA
Tendermint, Cryptium Labs
https://pluranimity.org
https://twitter.com/cwgoes
Reading suggestions, particularly on mechanism design and visions of the future (a la Age of Em).
Willing to host a meetup (potentially repeating) in Berlin pending interest. Willing to answer any questions on distributed ledger technology.
Cause prioritization
Existential risks
Mechanism design / incentive design
Visions of the future
Philosophy of Technology
Socioculturally stable progress seems likely to be necessary for long-term human survival and flourishing.
What are the structural reasons societies decay and how can they be alleviated? How can existential risks be better contained without technological restrictionism?
Boston
Director
Powderhouse Studios
alecresnick.com
http://twitter.com/aresnick
Metascience
Philosophy of Technology
Visions of the future
Robust decision-making under uncertainty
History of science and technology
Cultural components of change-making
History of industries
Progress definition and measurement
I think that society's definition of progress is one of the most fundamental and underappreciated levers for impact and lenses for thinking about impact.
San Francisco
Corp Dev
BA Harvard, MBA Wharton
Credit Karma
History of industries
Existential risks
San Francisco
Co-Founder & CTO
CS + EE @ Seattle University (dropped out)
Pluto Money
https://dantemonaldo.com
https://twitter.com/DanteMonaldo
Help me identify industries and processes that have remained untouched over the last 50-100 years. Also, I would love to chat with anyone interested in construction tech!
Full-stack technology advice. Happy to proofread and be someone to bounce ideas off. Areas of expertise: fintech, banking, Generation Z.
Visions of the future
Progress definition and measurement
History of industries
Mechanism design / incentive design
History of science and technology
Metascience
I'm impact driven and see progress as a measure of impact (in the right direction). My passion is building things, both in the digital and physical worlds. There are a lot of industries and processes that haven't changed in decades/centuries, and the reasons for that stagnation fascinates me. Identifying the blockers to improving our engineering/technological/scientific capabilities allows us (humanity) to build bigger, better, faster. And that excites me.
What are the blockers to improving production? Why have some industries remained largely untouched by technology?
San Francisco
Product manager/mechanism designer
BA Psychology and Philosophy @ Oxford, dropped out of MSc Financial Economics @ LSE
Foretold.io
Foretold.io
*Models of intellectual progress, *Advice from expert mechanism designers, *Feedback on my experiments to increase the pace of intellectual progress: https://tinyurl.com/amplification-and-forecasting
Some expertise in: *Mechanism design (e.g. building the incentives for foretold.io with mathematical models and concrete product decisions), *Forecasting (e.g. top forecaster in replication markets), *Existential risk and effective altruism, *Applied rationality (instructor-in-training with the Center for Applied Rationality) -- happy to help you debug life!
Metascience
Cause prioritization
Robust decision-making under uncertainty
Mechanism design / incentive design
Existential risks
I think that to solve existential risks we'll need to make intellectual progress in a pre-paradigmatic domain with very poor feedback loops and high externalities. We should not expect progress by default in such a domain. Hence my current goal is to build better tools/infrastructure to allow us to do this. It seems that part of the portfolio of resources allocated to this goal should be allocated to understanding intellectual progress itself.
Is it possible for x number of non-geniuses + excellent tools to replace a single genius? How much of progress is determined by second-order flow-through effects, as opposed to first-order effects which we can concretely predict and leverage, and how should this affect our plans strategically? What's the interplay between the generative/creative stage and the evaluative/experimental stage of research (e.g. shortening debugging times (evaluative) when coding is not going to make you more creative (generative), but it can still enable more insights by allowing rapid testing -- weird!)?
London
Operations Manager
Bachelor of Arts (history & cultural studies)
Applied
https://www.beapplied.com/
https://twitter.com/beapplied
I'd like to be able to write more for our company around this topic and need some support with that. I specifically would like to write a piece on the history of hiring, the CV, and recruitment in the context of progress.
able to meet up in London, offer some support in connecting people in the city
Robust decision-making under uncertainty
Progress definition and measurement
History of industries
I studied history and cultural studies at university and I feel as though I've always been interested in the way things and people work(cultural studies) and how they change over time (history). Education needs an overhaul, especially in the arts. More people could benefit from studying arts and science which I think progress studies is in the realm of, or could be the champion of teaching history and innovation.
When was the CV created and how has its various formations over time impacted or stalled the progress of various societies
Other
None
Bachelor of science in psychology(University of Melbourne)
None
None
Philosophy of Technology
I saw twitter thread about cement which capture my attention.The world economy is slowing down.populism rise. It seem we will face the war. Only progress and innovation can bring us peace
can we use ICT tech to drive human progress forward
Other
Law Professor
Yale (law), UCSB (undergrad)
University of Central Florida
https://priorprobability.com/
https://twitter.com/lawscholar
Philosophy of Technology
Progress definition and measurement
In truth, I am highly skeptical of "progress"; I want to study "Anti-Progress".
What is progress? What are the main obstacles to progress? And what factors play the most prominent role in promoting progress (e.g. trust, norms, or laws)?
Because I love the idea of progress and want to better understand how it comes about
Other
Visiting Assistant Professor of Political Science
PhD, Political Science, Indiana University
Denison University
https://denison.academia.edu/MatthewSlaboch
Progress definition and measurement
Visions of the future
Cultural components of change-making
Critiques of the idea of progress; philosophy of history; political theory
San Francisco
Product Manager
MIT (MBA), Duke (Econ BS)
Arterys
https://twitter.com/CUlstrup
Speak w/ medical imaging and diagnostic innovators about how you're developing new tech to measure or see inside the human body
You an outsider curious about how to get into healthcare/medtech? I was. And I made the leap. Let's chat.
Philosophy of Technology
Mechanism design / incentive design
Cultural components of change-making
Progress definition and measurement
I love the energy of the community. It's great to meet such a wide range of people interested in discovering (or rediscovering) ways to build a better world.
If discoveries in chemistry drove progress in the 19th century, physics in the 20th, and biology (TBD) in the 21st, what could come next?
San Francisco
Product Manager / Investor
Visions of the future
Metascience
Mechanism design / incentive design
Progress definition and measurement
Robust decision-making under uncertainty
History of industries
Other
Public Engagement Specialist and Program Manager, Research Fellows
Politics and Sociology BA
Leverage Research
https://twitter.com/Larissa_rowe
Metascience
History of science and technology
Cultural components of change-making
Robust decision-making under uncertainty
I’m personally interested in Progress Studies as I’m interested in the potentially significant benefits and risks to humanity that progress might yield, and in how different communities and ideologies both foster and limit ideas in different ways.
Professionally, there’s also potentially some overlap as Leverage Research is currently studying the history of science as one avenue for better understanding the drivers of scientific progress.
What does scientific progress look like? What are the key components of scientific progress?
Chief of staff
University of Oxford - BA philosophy, politics and economics
Institut Montaigne
https://twitter.com/milorignell?lang=en
Interesting reads concerning the design of government institutions, incentive structures for such institutions and ideas of how to provoke change in this setting. More generally thought-peovoking and non obvious examples of successful policy in any area, but science and innovation funding in particular.
Some understanding of the way different areas of government work in France.
Cause prioritization
Mechanism design / incentive design
Progress definition and measurement
Visions of the future
Existential risks
Mostly for EA reasons - trying to better understand how much progress we are making and where we can do better, with a view to adapting mostly US and sometimes UK insights to a French context. A particular interest in how to design government and european institutions to accelerate progress.
- what would the ideal government for promoting progress look like ? Is education a relevant field to be focusing on to promote progress ? Are there ppl in Europe who are particularly influential and aligned on these two topics ?
New York
Co-Founder
Materials/Biomedical Engineering at Carnegie Mellon
Symmetric Health Solutions
https://www.symmetrichealthsolutions.com/
https://twitter.com/TomasDardet
Why should we provide incentives for Basic Research? How can Profit-driven companies capitalize on Basic Research prior to the completion of Research results?
Feedback on Healthcare driven companies.
Robust decision-making under uncertainty
History of science and technology
Mechanism design / incentive design
Cultural components of change-making
Progress definition and measurement
I believe that the Primary School -> University model that mixes career paths into one bundle attempting to Socialize, prepare for Research, Educate, and Credential is parasitic on humanities potential. Interested in discovering if there is a better path towards capital allocation for Research and Deep-science which does not involve systematically oppressing people uninterested or unsuited for the Basic Research path.
San Francisco
Product Operations
Quora
New York
Ph.D., English, SUNY at Buffalo
https://new-savanna.blogspot.com/
https://twitter.com/bbenzon
I've read and written a lot and am always willing to give tips on what to read and to review work.
Other - please write in "research questions" block!
Metascience
Visions of the future
Cultural components of change-making
I've spend a lot of time investigating the long term evolution of human culture and see progress studies as contributing to that.
I generally interested in cultural evolution and, in particular, I'm interested in the mental architecture underlying cultural forms.
South Bay
Product Strategy
University of Utah (drop out)
Mashgin Inc.
http://maxolson.com
https://twitter.com/maxolson
Visions of the future
History of industries
Progress definition and measurement
History of science and technology
Mechanism design / incentive design
Combination of 3 things: (1) Love to study history of innovation/progress, (2) fascinated by the specific methods required to accomplish large-scale collaborative projects, and (3) studying progress of the past helps us improve it in the future!
How do you best measure productivity and prosperity over long periods? What can we do to greatly increase humanity's rate of progress?
Other
San Francisco
CTO
MIT
Dwelo
https://dwelo.com
Global perspective on education access and culture, IoT/ML
Metascience
Philosophy of Technology
Cultural components of change-making
Progress definition and measurement
History of industries
Want to "move humanity forward, faster, efficiently" to protect against existential risks and increase quality of life. I have an eye towards ethical questions such as how to avoid ultimate class stratification and unequal access to traditional outcomes of progress. I wonder if we could progress so that we improve science and economics to a point that most fundamental access vectors become public utilities.
Particularly interested in fundamental life science research progress and how we can either reform or change the current academic culture that surrounds it. Under this umbrella, have been thinking about funding and hypercompetition/attribution.
San Francisco
Chairman
B.A., University of Chicago. J.D, UC Berkeley.
Jovono
jovono.com
twitter.com/ejzim
Participation in cool projects.
Advice, including outside of progress studies. Coauthor on pieces where I can add value. Pointers to potentially relevant research.
Mechanism design / incentive design
Progress definition and measurement
Philosophy of Technology
Visions of the future
Progress is essential for living the good life and avoiding zero-sum games. I am interested in what we can do to bring back progress, both practically and culturally. It's also exciting to be part of such an intellectually vibrant community and field of study. In another life, I was going to be an economist, and this is a more all-encompassing version of my interests.
I am most interested in helping build a progress movement that actually influences society.
Other
Founder
Psychology; Cal Poly SLO
Build The Future
https://www.buildthefuturepodcast.com/
https://twitter.com/camwiese
Suggestions or introductions for folks to host on the podcast; feedback and sharing of the show :)
If you need help streamlining some processes (I can automate anything), setting up referral programs, onboarding, growing, retaining, I'm happy to jump on a call to help strategize :)
Visions of the future
Philosophy of Technology
Other
CEO
Actuarial Science Bachelor
Haumi
http://axelpacheco.me
https://twitter.com/PachecoTellez
The idea of studying progress should be more mainstream, at the end progress and survival are the only goals.
It's specially hard to find communities or people interested in this subjects in LATAM. Really excited that I found this.
Other
Associate
MBA from HEC/Wharton, MS in Biotech from Penn State
Jolt Capital
looking to get closer to issues I care about
Happy to talk about everything from Policy to Biotech
History of science and technology
History of industries
Cause prioritization
I like the spirit of the community to focus on long-term vision
Questions about Education, Transportation, and Healthcare
PhD student
MIT
basilhalperin.com
twitter.com/basilhalperin
Other
PhD student in philosophy of ML
BA Computer Science and Philosophy @ Oxford, MPhil ML @ Cambridge
Cambridge
thinkingcomplete.blogspot.com
twitter.com/richardmcngo
Currently learning about evolution and cognitive science, pointers welcome.
Discussion of machine learning frontiers.
Philosophy of Technology
History of science and technology
Existential risks
Visions of the future
Other
Product manager
B.S. Bioengineering - Syracuse University
Subspace
philmohun.com
https://twitter.com/philmohun
Visions of the future
History of science and technology
Toronto
Intern
High School (still here :))
Solace Lifesciences
joshuaopayne.com
twitter.com/tweetatjoshua
None!
My thoughts and insights in discussions, mostly here to listen.
Cultural components of change-making
Purely learning and being around smart people. I don't know a lot about progress studies, but I'm so fascinated with what I've read so far on the website. Change-making and incentive design are stuff I'm particularly curious about because I'm super interested in enacting social impact (through solving big problems). Interested in insights from the legit people here, not basic humanitarian dogma.
n/a
Other
Student + Researcher
https://twitter.com/rishu_mohanka
Visions of the future
Progress definition and measurement
History of science and technology
Mechanism design / incentive design
Philosophy of Technology
Existential risks
Robust decision-making under uncertainty
Cause prioritization
Metascience
History of industries
Cultural components of change-making
Boston
Director
BA (Physics), JD (Law), LLM (Tax Law)
MITii
innovation.mit.edu
https://twitter.com/tjmiano
Presume all language is ambiguous.
I'm always happy to talk to startup founders, even if only a quick 30 min video chat.
Philosophy of Technology
Visions of the future
History of science and technology
Mechanism design / incentive design
Cultural components of change-making
Progress definition and measurement
Because we face problems that have never existed before.
San Francisco
Other
Founder
BS in Aero, MS in Development Studies, Doing MS in Astro
Terminal / Mercantile
terminal.io / getmercantile.com
Peer pressure/encouragement to do something
International Experience, Building Teams, Defense Experience
Cause prioritization
Existential risks
Mechanism design / incentive design
Believe it's the critical underlying issue
Where is the highest leverage point? How to move it?
Defense, Development, International
London
Investment Director
MBA, M.Sc Economics, B.Eng
www.strangeloopcanon.com
https://twitter.com/krishnanrohit
Good natured intellectual debate
Good natured intellectual debate
Philosophy of Technology
Robust decision-making under uncertainty
Mechanism design / incentive design
All progress depends on finding the next growth frontier, technological, social and consequently economical. What else could be more fun to study?
London
Researcher
BA Philosophy, Politics and Economics at University of Oxford
China Research Group
https://twitter.com/juliapamilih
Chances to write and get involved in interesting discussion
Happy to be a sounding board + help with writing / understanding politics
Cultural components of change-making
Thinking harder about the concrete steps we can take to improve quality of life and also tackling complex global problems. Particularly interested in the role of the state in facilitating progress
How can we improve our institutions and decision-making? How can we improve the intersection between private and public sector?
San Francisco
Founder
Undergrad in Economics. MBA from Berkeley-Haas.
AHappyJob.com
https://max2c.com
https://twitter.com/maxan
None as of now.
I'd love to meet smart people in the community when the pandemic is over and exchange ideas.
Visions of the future
Mechanism design / incentive design
Science, engineering, and well-functioning economic institutions have always been the main drivers of human progress and well-being. We should be trying to accelerate them if we want to live in a much better world in the future.
Life extension, entrepreneurship, education, cosmopolitanism, globalism.
Other
Consultant
MIT (BS in physics)
Boston Consulting Group
https://www.modelsandmorality.com/
Stimulating discussion!
Perspectives on religion (I'm Catholic), management consulting, emerging markets. Happy to collaborate on projects, especially related to global poverty
Our purpose in life is to make the world better for others, and studying progress helps us do that
How does academic research and reasoning about abstract concepts translate into better lives for people (e.g., how much time should I spend reading academic papers vs doing work)? In what circumstances is international aid helpful vs. harmful?
London
Research Scientist
PhD in Maths
Five.ai
edayers.com
https://twitter.com/ewayers
Mechanism design / incentive design
Progress definition and measurement
Cultural components of change-making
I want to understand how we can get as many people as possible out of not having terrible lives. I think understanding how progress and growth works and being able to push it in certain directions is going to be more effective than, say EA. I am more interested in object-level problems like nuclear power.
Nuclear energy, agriculture, institutions
Other
Business Development
Economics (BA) + Biology (BSc)
GenXys Health Care Systems
https://twitter.com/RoryWStClair
Tell me about a project that needs PT support. Priority to health, climate, mental health, homelessness, or addiction.
Advise for early-stage commercialization of devices/digital in healthcare; Introductions, where possible
History of science and technology
Mechanism design / incentive design
Visions of the future
Progress is necessary. It helps to study somewhat before and during creation.
What can we do to increase the long-term rate of productivity growth?
New York
Summer Associate
Astrophysics, Finance. Currently in college.
Lux Capital
http://rrana.org/
https://twitter.com/rrana03_
Anything VC/startups-related. Also love being a sounding board for ideas.
Metascience
Philosophy of Technology
Visions of the future
History of science and technology
Robust decision-making under uncertainty
Mechanism design / incentive design
History of industries
Progress definition and measurement
Cultural components of change-making
Other - please write in "research questions" block!
I wrote a book on moonshot companies, which are startups that deal with frontier tech/sciences. Of course, there is a lot of history related to this topic as well as a robust ecosystem (startups/vc, government, academia, education, media, etc.), which all relates to progress studies.
How can we use evolution, human nature, and other long-term phenomena to predict sciences and technologies of the future (also their commercial viability, so we can bring ideas from labs to market).
Startups, Venture Capital, metascience, space technology, biology, physics
Toronto
Math/CS Student
McMaster University
https://twitter.com/an_observer__
Advice for breaking into technology policy as a career (Governmental bodies, thinktanks, advocacy orgs etc.) could be nice!
Foreign language learning advice?
Cause prioritization
Mechanism design / incentive design
Robust decision-making under uncertainty
Metascience
Very keen on Effective Altruism and am considering pursuing technology policy as a career. Here to learn from and discuss with cool, likeminded people. Am interested in trying to reduce the political barriers in the deployment of advanced fission reactors.
How do we increase the feasibility of advanced fission reactors in decarbonization?, What are some ways to regulate companies such that they align recommender systems?, What are some promising technical solutions to reducing nuclear proliferation risk?
San Francisco
Engineer
MSc
twitter.com/ruthgracewong
Consulting about anything related to physical goods, such as manufacturing and supply chain
Visions of the future
Mechanism design / incentive design
Cultural components of change-making
I hope to contribute to human progress as the CTO of some kind of doing good organization in my late career
How to make good information spread as virally as misinformation
Other - please write in "research questions" block!
Want to develop a better mental model of how to maximize worldwide happiness/thriving.
What are the costs of technological and economic progress? What are the best measures of progress? (e.g. the beyond GDP debate)
Toronto
Business Systems Analyst
B.A.Sc. (Chemical) Toronto; MBA YorkU (Toronto)
Plexxus
https://www.linkedin.com/in/alex-barnes-8b9a035/
Working on concept for solar-powered UV-C LEDs for clean water in rural Rwanda; connections with local Technical Universities to build out Proof-of-Concept would be helpful
Connections to Effective Altruism, Systems Innovation, Complexity Weekend and Toronto-based Angel Investment
Mechanism design / incentive design
Cultural components of change-making
I think it should be possible to provide clean water to everyone on earth using some combination of for-profit, non-profit and government structures
Cost reduction in the provision and distribution of clean water
Other
Angel Investor
MBA
Self
https://austinnextpodcast.com/
To learn
Advice on startups and fundraising
Visions of the future
Progress definition and measurement
Robust decision-making under uncertainty
To move us forward and getting the flying car, we need to understand how we actually drive innovation. This comes from an understanding of history, incentives, technological advancement, ecosystem development, and more.
San Francisco
Member of Technical Staff
Stanford University B.S., M.S.
OpenAI
https://todor-markov.github.io/
Metascience
Cultural components of change-making
Progress definition and measurement
History of science and technology
History of industries
Cause prioritization
In the history of humanity, it seems that most of the improvement in the human condition has been directly or indirectly driven by scientific and technological progress. Thus, improving our ability to make this kind of progress is likely a very high-impact way of further improving that condition.
Other
AB. Dartmouth 2011
www.conradwhitaker.com
https://twitter.com/ConradWhitaker
Pipeline of investable startups in Kenya - and possible on-ground network access!
Cause prioritization
Robust decision-making under uncertainty
Mechanism design / incentive design
Cultural components of change-making
Existential risks
Other
B.A. Economics, Princeton University
https://www.alakahalder.xyz/
https://twitter.com/HalderAlaka
History of science and technology
History of industries
Mechanism design / incentive design
Progress definition and measurement
New York
Independent Researcher (for now)
Harvard College, 2014, Government (Spanish minor)
Self
https://danielgolliher.com/
https://twitter.com/danielgolliher/
Connections with others working on NYC government and urbanism, and LGBT culture
Onboarding new arrivals to NYC: https://golliher.substack.com/p/new-york-city-onboarding
Visions of the future
Cultural components of change-making
Progress definition and measurement
Other - please write in "research questions" block!
It provides great conceptual packages to build new institutions. And to solve the problems I'm looking at, I'll need some new institutions (and they'll need to work well with the old ones too).
Answering: (1) is the gay revolution succeeding? What is it's status? (2) How can individuals change NYC more effectively than legacy institutions, how have they done so in the past, and can we replicate the successful elements of the past
New York City; LGBT
Other
Founder Futurist
MSc Architecture (TU Delft)
Studio Monnik & de Chrononauten
dechrononauten.nl
https://twitter.com/edwingardner
Feedback and conversation on research and future scenario's
Expertise on the historic interactions between technology and culture, worldbuilding and crafting future scenario's
Metascience
Philosophy of Technology
Visions of the future
Cultural components of change-making
History of science and technology
It's an angle that seems to integrate the 'two cultures' : The Humanities and The Sciences. An holistic approach that puts technology and socio-cultural insights together gives us a better chance to move forwards to a sustainable, inclusive and adventurous society.
What is consciousness? What comes after materialism? How to establish a common truth in contemporary society? ...
Other
CS Phd Student
Caltech, Cambridge, CMU - CS & Math
Carnegie Mellon University
http://mattweidner.com/
https://twitter.com/MatthewWeidner3
History of industries
History of science and technology
Cause prioritization
Visions of the future
I want to increase the odds that my work will have a meaningful positive impact. I also enjoy learning about industrial history.
What caused the industrial revolution? How can we encourage similar progress in the next 100 years?
Other
Security Consulting Senior Analyst
BS Industrial Engineering, Georgia Tech
Accenture
https://www.wfhlibrarian.com
https://twitter.com/AlexBMcauliffe
Philosophy of Technology
History of science and technology
I'm curious whether studying and communicating the history of human progress can help to alleviate the feeling of emptiness that so many modern people live with despite their profound absolute and relative privilege.
What does a meaningful life in an affluent society look like? Can progress continue indefinitely, or does it always shade into apathy and decadence?
Seattle
Other
Software Engineer
BA, Economics
colemanfoley.com
https://twitter.com/colemanfoley
Visions of the future
Interested in how we can have a future of abundance.
San Francisco
Product Manager
Stanford Computer Science and Stanford Philosophy
Google
jasonzhao.com
https://twitter.com/jasonjzhao
Meeting new people, learning more about progress studies
connections to interesting people in AI and tech policy
Metascience
Visions of the future
Cultural components of change-making
Existential risks
History of science and technology
I want to work on areas involved with progress studies.
London
Co-founder
Imperial College London
Odin
www.joinodin.com
https://twitter.com/morty_lin
Would love to meet/talk to people who are very knowledgeable and/or experienced in incentive-design, especially related to governance and community-building. Also anyone who has shaped public policy.
Anything you think I could help with! Introductions to angel investors, setting up investment vehicles, thoughts on incentive-design. My expertise lies in having a deep understanding of humans, which informs all my decision-making on anything strategic. My background is in Biological sciences / Software engineering / Product / Design / Curation
Cause prioritization
Visions of the future
Mechanism design / incentive design
How to allow everyone to more actively participate in society, and improve how value is created and distributed.
San Francisco
Engineer
Claremont McKenna
Twilio/Segment
https://kevin.burke.dev
https://twitter.com/derivativeburke
Housing law, copy editing, programming, web development
Philosophy of Technology
Visions of the future
I'd like the United States to produce more housing to ensure that it's affordable to people my age, we're helping end homelessness, combat climate change, and ensure that people have a place to live when they immigrate here, among other reasons.
Right now there are a lot of obstacles to building more housing in the US and in California specifically.
Other
Sales Engineer
BS Mechanical Engineering & BS Physics
Altair Solar
https://twitter.com/anassmalabeh
Philosophy of Technology
Visions of the future
Technology and societal development are curiosities of mine. As I get older, I would like to apply what I know, and hope to do it with other people that feel the same about progress and technology.
Other
Research Professor & Co-Director, IRLE
PhD Economics, Northwestern University; BS Economics, Miami University
University of Colorado Denver
http://www.lynnekiesling.com
https://twitter.com/knowledgeprob
History of science and technology
Mechanism design / incentive design
History of industries
Other - please write in "research questions" block!
Relationship between technological change and economic regulation
San Francisco
Computable Contract Evangelist
Computer Science
AXA / Stanford
pld.io
https://twitter.com/hexapode
Want to learn more.
Always happy to help. I can listen, be an idea sparing partner. I can also help to build things.
Visions of the future
Robust decision-making under uncertainty
Existential risks
Metascience
I'm mostly interrest in understanding how technology evolve, and how this evolution can be predict / accelerate.
How can we accelerate technology development? What is slowing us down? What is working?
MEng Materials Engineering - University of Birmingham,
British Army (Royal Electrical and Mechanical Engineers)
https://twitter.com/CptCovid19
Freedom of speech, Freedom to question and to be questioned, Sharing community - what you think, what you've read that you find interesting (anything to increase serendipity).
Before I came across Progress Studies I shared a concern common amongst many that our scientific and cultural communities had stagnated. Instead of striving for the next big frontier or step up in human evolution, we have devolved to ridiculous pontificating about trivial matters. Progress Studies is both intellectually stimulating and reassuring that there are others out there with similar desires and interests for Man to improve. I would love to learn more about the history of why certain eras
How did the Apollo missions and innovation centres such as PARC implement so many new marketable technologies in such a short time frame and why is their success so hard to emulate?
Other
Strategic Cloud Engineer
BSc. Computer Science from Ashoka University, India
Google
https://samafromearth.notion.site
https://twitter.com/samafromearth
Visions of the future
Philosophy of Technology
Research Project Administrator
BSc Politics and Philosophy, MPhil Political Theory
Oxford Internet Institute
www.linkedin.com/in/rory-gillis
https://twitter.com/rory_j_gillis
Existential risks
Cultural components of change-making
Progress definition and measurement
Researching what causes progress is potentially very impactful.
Determinants of moral progress, causes of political change
Investor/Advisor/Founder
Philosophy of Technology
Visions of the future
History of science and technology
Other - please write in "research questions" block!
I specifically want to explore the cross section of high value immigrants migration in progress, with the internet age, change in financial system, and how the world moves to the next era in human progress.
Other
Artist
Graduate, Xi'an Jiaotong University
Freelance
https://ChengduLittleA.com
https://twitter.com/ChengduLittleA
Where do we go from here.
Explorative representation of technology in different context, visually or verbally.
Visions of the future
Existential risks
Mechanism design / incentive design
Progress definition and measurement
Cause prioritization
Philosophy of Technology
I need to become better at being who I am and explore different possibilities for existing materialized elements to work in the future.
Mechanism/Incentive design
divergent
London
Undergraduate
Current BSc Economics undergraduate
University of Warwick
https://joshuamuthu.substack.com/
https://twitter.com/joshua_muthu
Part-time/freelance/summer experience to learn more about and contribute to progress studies
Enthusiasm, intellectual curiosity, and hard work
Metascience
Philosophy of Technology
Cause prioritization
Visions of the future
Robust decision-making under uncertainty
History of science and technology
Existential risks
Mechanism design / incentive design
Cultural components of change-making
History of industries
Progress definition and measurement
I want to make the world a better place -- progress studies is dedicated to this.
Any questions within the field -- I am in a very exploratory phase. Specifically I have been looking at policies to accelerate growth/progress in the UK
London
Applied Science Lead
PhD Theoretical Neuroscience, MRes Systems Biology, MSc Artificial Intelligence, BSc Computer Science and Physics
Onfido
https://twitter.com/richardtomsett
Would like to learn more about economics and policy, especially designing markets and the economics of productivity
Expertise in (predictive) machine learning/deep learning especially in computer vision; probability and statistics; applied science experience in industry
Robust decision-making under uncertainty
Mechanism design / incentive design
Metascience
History of science and technology
Cultural components of change-making
I'm particularly interested in "Progress-minded approaches to other issues of the day (climate change, poverty/inequality, war, etc.)" as listed in the FAQ relevant topics out of a desire to contribute towards addressing these problems.
What models and processes lead to reliable progress in science and technology, and how these can be applied in different contexts? How can we best stimulate the technological developments required to stop climate change? How can progress studies contribute towards alleviating poverty and/or reducing inequality?
Other
Systems Engineer
MEng (Electrical)
Rouxcel Technology
stefcoetzee.com
https://twitter.com/stef_coetzee
Visions of the future
History of industries
Philosophy of Technology
Mechanism design / incentive design
Because we need abundant energy and materials to give more people more opportunities to do more good.
Other
Founder
University of Virginia (Classics)
Infinity Road
www.christinafedor.com
https://twitter.com/christinasatory
collaborators for progress-related media production + distribution + travel events
Progress is such a central concept that defines what "western culture" means that it's arguably one of the most important mental models to define, redefine, and build relationships with and through
How do we incentivize a sustainably high quality of life for US citizens?
Los Angeles Philosophy Wellbeing Agency
London
Progressive Problem Solving
AI Ethics & Society @ University of Cambridge
UK Local Government
https://x.com/alishacmlewis
Digital Communications and campaigns work in UK politics for almost a decade. Happy to chat!
Philosophy of Technology
Cause prioritization
Cultural components of change-making
Mechanism design / incentive design
Visions of the future
San Francisco
CEO
BA, Yale
Innovate Animal Ag
innovateanimalag.org
https://x.com/robert_yaman
Philosophy of Technology
Visions of the future
History of science and technology
Cultural components of change-making
History of industries
I founded a think tank, Innovate Animal Ag, that can be described as trying to apply the techno-optimist ideology to animal agriculture. We believe that farm animal welfare is a critically important moral issue, but that current solutions (e.g. veganism, restrictive agricultural policies, regenerative agriculture) come from a degrowth mindset that ultimately limit their potential. Instead, we believe that we should take cues from the climate change movement, and focus on technologies that can mi
How the principles of progress studies can be used in areas where externality mitigation is important, especially farm animal welfare.
Other
Entrepreneur
Some College
FairComp
https://faircomp.io
https://x.com/gregorygmwhite
Looking to learn and meet like minded folks
I'm a software engineer by trade and a writer by heart. I'd love to be helpful however I can.
Visions of the future
Progress definition and measurement
To help cultivate progress in practice
Abundance, energy policy, AI and Robotics policy, YIMBY activism
San Francisco
CEO
PhD in Physics
Gordian Biotechnology
www.gordian.bio
Visions of the future
The cure for age-related disease
Associate Professor
Caltech postdoc, UC Berkeley PhD, University of Cambridge ugrad, Princeton postdoc
University of Chicago
sseh.uchicago.edu
https://x.com/edwinkite
Visions of the future
Cause prioritization
History of science and technology
Metascience
Other - please write in "research questions" block!
Entering a period of rapid change, interested in learning from the last period of rapid change (1870 to ~1960). Working on Mars terraforming.
Mars terraforming, space
London
Writer
Oxford, City University (journalism MA), Polaris fellowship
Freelance
https://tom-ough.com/
https://twitter.com/tomough
Currently interested in charter cities
Essays, books, podcasts
Metascience
Visions of the future
Cultural components of change-making
Existential risks
I've come to see technological advancement as less deterministic than I used to. I see stagnation in some key areas, if not all, and it dismays me. I think we are much further from a flourishing society than people imagine. Complacency seems the typical attitude; progress studies is the opposite.
Who's working on the sexiest longevity stuff? How are various charter cities projects going?
anglofuturism, geothermal, x-risks, space
New York
Editorial Director, Future Perfect
BA, English, Princeton University Class of 2001
Vox
https://www.vox.com/future-perfect/
Metascience
Visions of the future
Existential risks
Progress definition and measurement
The site I edit, Vox's Future Perfect, is dedicated to covering ways to make the future a better place, whether through technological development, better policymaking or smarter philanthropy. We agree that we need a much better understanding of how progress happens and how to accelerate it — as safely as possible, without letting safety throttle the future.
Where does progress come from, and why has it seemed to slow? What policies on the national level can accelerate progress? How can science be reformed in a way to speed scientific advancement? Can moral progress accompany technological and economic progress? What are better ways to communicate in the media the need for progress, its importance?
Other
Executive Director
Masters in Commerce
Atlassian
https://www.atlassian.com
Details of Prolific Chosen Tactics
Moments of Matter Loved Bliss
The insider’s guide to plagiarism Scientific plagiarism—a problem as serious as fraud—has not received all the attention it deserves.
How a new era of great progress could open up over the next 25 years due to world-historic technology transformations like the beginning of The AI Age.
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