In July 2019, Tyler Cowen and I wrote a piece for the Atlantic entitled We Need a New Science of Progress. (It was in some ways a sequel to an earlier article that Michael Nielsen and I wrote together.) I'm collecting some of the responses to it below.| patrickcollison.com
Effective altruism is a project that aims to find the best ways to help others, and put them into practice. It’s partly a research field, which aims to identify the world’s most pressing problems and| www.effectivealtruism.org
Kevin Kwok has a schtick about how friend groups underinvest in themselves. A group of people with high mutual trust, shared interests, and low coordination costs have already solved for many of the issues that otherwise prevent humans from accomplishing great things.| nayafia.substack.com