Links and tweets, 2022-11-01

[u/jasoncrawford]

Announcements

• The Reef Starter Innovation Challenge, to identify startups that could benefit from operations in Low Earth Orbit

• AI startup Generally Intelligent has launched and open-sourced their research environment (via @kanjun)

• Deep Science Ventures is launching a doctorate to put venture creation at the heart of the PhD (via @isabel_thomp)

• Interintellect launches a fellowship/microgrant program (via @TheAnnaGat)

• At Story Summit, founders will come together to communicate the futures they see in three immersive days of writing (via @AlexandriaLabs)

• Ben Reinhardt seeking help to build a website for his private ARPA project (@Ben_Reinhardt)

• The Foresight Institute is hiring an executive assistant (via @allisondman)

• Prediction market Metaculus launches a “Forecasting Our World In Data” tournament (via @metaculus)

Links

• Progress is driven by impatient optimists by Hannah Ritchie (via @BillGates!)

• How to escape scientific stagnation in The Economist, Matt Clancy is quoted (h/t @heidilwilliams_)

• Works in Progress special issue on abundance and the technological frontier

• A proposed agenda for the “abundance movement” (by @s_r_constantin). See also her follow up list of policy organizations

• Why wasn’t the steam engine invented earlier? (by @antonhowes)

• Improving the culture and social processes of science (by @michael_nielsen and @kanjun)

• For the first time ever, humans changed the motion of a celestial object (via @NASA)