jasoncrawford

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Questions to ask about funding models for research and development(rootsofprogress.org)
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Funding Models for Science and Invention(rootsofprogress.org)
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Before Nobels: Gifts to & from rich patrons were early science’s currency (2016)(theconversation.com)
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Funding Models and Progress(rootsofprogress.org)
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A Builder Manifesto(rootsofprogress.org)
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More Progress, Faster, Is Our Best Defense Against This Pandemic and Future Ones(leapsmag.com)
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Invite people to ascend PG's hierarchy of disagreement(jasoncrawford.org)
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“Definite” vs. “indefinite” optimism as a false dichotomy(letter.wiki)
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Leadership and Progress(rootsofprogress.org)
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Ossified funding models in medicine throttling our response to Covid-19(rootsofprogress.org)
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Our best weapons against disease don't work on Covid-19(rootsofprogress.org)
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How Early American Inventors Funded Their Ventures(rootsofprogress.org)
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Epistemic standards for “Why did it take so long to invent X?”(rootsofprogress.org)
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by jasoncrawford 7y ago
Thanks Simon, any good articles on this point about jet engines? I'm collecting analyses of specific inventions.
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Why Did It Take So Long to Invent X?(rootsofprogress.org)
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The Plight of the Poor(rootsofprogress.org)
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by jasoncrawford 7y ago
Why “extraordinarily suspect”?
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by jasoncrawford 7y ago
Thanks for the reading suggestions. And of course I am already thinking about the questions you mentioned and have been for a long time. I agree that politics, ideology, and mass opinion matter a lot, and never meant to imply otherwise. Ind
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by jasoncrawford 7y ago
Thanks. Part of the goal of my project is to get underneath assumptions and ideology. That is, I try to justify my conclusions based on evidence and research—at least the harder claims (as opposed to my somewhat more speculative comments ab
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by jasoncrawford 7y ago
“Whose narrative?” Uh, mine I guess. I'm an independent researcher. Used to be a tech founder. This blog was my hobby until I quit my last job. Now I do it almost full-time. I'm funded by grants from Emergent Ventures among others
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by jasoncrawford 7y ago
So there is something odd going on with measles. I haven't dug into the data, but from a couple of data points I've seen, it seems that measles mortality was declining for a long time even while measles cases were not. That is
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by jasoncrawford 7y ago
The HTML title is deliberately different from the header. The header is a catchy/literary title; the HTML title is more descriptive of what you'll get if you click through. So, all is as intended. Thanks.
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Sanitation conquered disease long before vaccines or antibiotics(rootsofprogress.org)
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Why Jonas Salk was ethically opposed to a randomized trial of the polio vaccine(rootsofprogress.org)
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Were vaccines relevant to 20th century US mortality improvements?(rootsofprogress.org)
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The History of Smallpox(rootsofprogress.org)
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by jasoncrawford 7y ago
Counterpoint: Why do we need or even want anything to last a thousand years? In a hundred years we'll probably have much better technologies than today, and hopefully we'll be much richer. Why not rebuild stuff? (I don't 100%
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by jasoncrawford 7y ago
Such as?
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by jasoncrawford 7y ago
Why not?
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by jasoncrawford 7y ago
How does engineered wood do on strength and fire resistance? Would appreciate any unbiased comparisons vs. steel and concrete on those points

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