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user: jasoncrawford created: 2009-08-01 karma: 2154 Author, The Roots of Progress (rootsofprogress.org). Part-time tech consultant, Our World in Data. Former software engineering manager and tech startup founder. Home: jasoncrawford.org, Twitter: @jasoncrawford submissions: 0 points | 0 comments 0 points | 0 comments Who regulates the regulators? We need to go beyond review-and-approval 195 points | 98 comments The A.I. Dilemma: Growth versus Existential Risk [pdf] 1 points | 0 comments 0 points | 0 comments Tyler Cowen AMA 1 points | 0 comments How to slow down scientific progress, according to Leo Szilard 179 points | 31 comments What People of 1923 Predicted About 2023 1 points | 0 comments What everyone should know about first aid 5 points | 0 comments Patrick McKenzie (Patio11) AMA on the Progress Forum 1 points | 0 comments We need a new philosophy of progress 4 points | 3 comments The Lessons of Xanadu 5 points | 1 comments Technocracy and the Space Age 3 points | 0 comments 0 points | 0 comments Do we need a better understanding of 'progress'? 6 points | 4 comments What are the best examples of catastrophic resource shortages? 2 points | 0 comments 0 points | 0 comments Why Pessimism Sounds Smart 2 points | 1 comments Why “progress studies” is interdisciplinary 2 points | 1 comments 0 points | 0 comments 0 points | 0 comments 0 points | 0 comments 0 points | 0 comments Is growth linear, not exponential? 73 points | 75 comments A Simple Guide to Life 12 points | 0 comments Flywheels of Progress 5 points | 0 comments What Is a “Philosophy of Progress?” 2 points | 0 comments Reflections on Six Months of Fatherhood 3 points | 0 comments What if the Industrial Revolution had started 2k years ago rather than 200? 2 points | 0 comments Progress, humanism, agency: An intellectual core for the progress movement 1 points | 0 comments