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
We are told that technology is on the brink of ruining everything. But we are being lied to, and the truth is so much better. Marc Andreessen presents his techno-optimist vision for the future.| Andreessen Horowitz
Thucydides predicted that future generations would underestimate the power of Sparta. It built no great temples, left no magnificent ruins. Absent any tangible signs of the sway it once held, memor…| Slate Star Codex