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Jason Crawford
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Jason Crawford writes The Roots of Progress, a personal blog at newsletter.rootsofprogress.org about history, philosophy and economics. Since 2023, 3 different Hacker News readers have linked it 7 times. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-09-03, and you can follow it by feed.
The history of technology and the philosophy of progress, plus announcements from the Roots of Progress Institute.
What Hacker News says?
Submitted In defense of slop: When costs fall, average quality does too as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted The future of humanity is in management as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Can We “Cure” Cancer? as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted How to slow down scientific progress as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Progress Conference 2026 as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Roots of Progress Blog-Building Intensive as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted X-Risk potential of research towards chiral-inverse cells as a story · 1 points
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