“Our instinctual rush to criticize is itself symptomatic of our cultural malaise, that feeling of futility….” California Forever “strikes at the heart of that malaise” Ryan Puzycki California Whatever? Scoffing Is Easy, Building Is Harder: progressforum.org/posts/qPEJ8YLx…

“Surgery has at least all of the market challenges that harry pharmaceuticals and it doesn’t have an FDA. Yet, it still muddles through” Maxwell Tabarrok Surgery Works Well Without The FDA: progressforum.org/posts/sdh4GhWq…

“Funding should go in a single block to a relatively large research organization… This is how some of the most effective, transformative labs in the world have been organized” Jason Crawford Making every researcher seek grants is a broken model: progressforum.org/posts/SB7Jzqj5…

“If life is better than ever before, why does the world seem so depressing?” The Seven Laws of Declinism, by Maarten Boudry progressforum.org/posts/in8Svcf9…

“I can see some plausible futures where my investments in research, writing, and thinking are moot, and some where they are invaluable but I’m not sure which is more likely” Maxwell Tabarrok Practicing my Handwriting in 1439: progressforum.org/posts/PBRxjaWB…

The world is changing, and current institutions are ill suited to the changes. “We need better institutions. … It’s up to us to build a better future for ourselves and our ancestors” Mark Lutter The increasing importance of coordination: progressforum.org/posts/fMLE8cx6…

“A critical failure mode in many discussions of technological risk is the assumption that maintaining status quo for technology would lead to maintaining the status quo for society” David Manheim Safe Stasis Fallacy: progressforum.org/posts/yfQi7Zrn…

“The City That Can’t. That’s a helluva far cry from the city’s official motto, ‘Gold in Peace, Iron in War.’” Ryan Puzycki progressforum.org/posts/ZgtnnwmJ…

“Should text on the internet have longer or shorter copyright than text in books in the 16th century? I'm honestly not sure, but I suspect modern copyright is far too long” Maxwell Tabarrok When Should Copyright Get Shorter? progressforum.org/posts/iLap2kC2…

Event, Feb 29: “Towards a New Philosophy of Progress” in Boston and on Zoom progressforum.org/posts/rvp5siJj…

“Nobody really took idea of one billion Americans *literally*. In all the podcasts and book reviews, nobody thought to ask, ‘what would the American economy look like with 1 billion people?’” @harsimony How Rich Would 1 Billion Americans Be? progressforum.org/posts/ZBbSbvhH…

“The morass of incentives and agents that make up government do not aggregate into a social welfare maximizer” Maxwell Tabarrok Don't Endorse the Idea of Market Failure: progressforum.org/posts/LMCv6tuT…

“The ideal human population is not ‘much smaller,’ but ‘ever larger.’ … A world with a large and growing population is a dynamic world that can create and sustain progress” Jason Crawford Why you, personally, should want a larger human population: progressforum.org/posts/HRpvRZEw…

“Exceptional educations do not mean we have to choose between brilliance and happiness. The key is autonomy” Henry Oliver How to raise a (happy) genius: progressforum.org/posts/pPRguB92…

“The FDA’s failures merit a complete overhaul: Remove efficacy requirements and keep only basic safety testing and ingredient verification” Maxwell Tabarrok We Need Major, But Not Radical, FDA Reform: progressforum.org/posts/ovRuKhdE…

“In one sense, the concept of progress is simple, straightforward, and uncontroversial. In another sense, it contains an entire worldview” Jason Crawford What is progress? progressforum.org/posts/fBqejBdA…

“Is there a future where eventually the whole world is part of NATO?” What if NATO became a world government? by Elle Griffin progressforum.org/posts/mqEDPvtS…

ChatGPT is “a lazy, lying, moralist midwit. Everything it writes is full of nauseating cliche and it frequently refuses to do something you know it can do” Maxwell Tabarrok Claude vs GPT: progressforum.org/posts/zsLm9o6c…

“What if our constitution was a Wikipedia page that any of us could edit, and trusted editors could then incorporate those edits as it made sense?” What if government worked like Wikipedia? by Elle Griffin progressforum.org/posts/evPDWGde…

“In terms of increasing human flourishing for those alive today, increasing progress is just one, among many tools, and certainly not the one with the most low-hanging fruit” Why I Don't Identify with the Progress Studies Community, by Daniel Frank: progressforum.org/posts/ynCuQtJv…