Trevor Klee in Asimov Press on finding animal models of disease. I feel like the combination of LLMs being well suited for biology research and the declining cost of genomic sequencing probably means we should be spot sequencing everything and anything.
It’s actually genius how the IFP, primarily a think tank, spreads its ideas using the medium of Substack blogs. Seeds of Science on a pharmaceutical approach to treating addiction. Construction Physics with an overview of the US interconnection queue (the list of projects requesting to be connected to the grid), as another process being bottlenecked by paperwork.
(Edit: There’s actually a really good discussion of the “Progress Coalition” in this podcast by Jasmine Sun, which correctly notes that it’s actually composed of the entire range of left to right social and economic politics. I have a toy model which is quadrant system which divides between stasis and change as one spectrum, and social freedom versus control on the other. Both progress and progressivism are trying to create the future (the other side would be NIMBYs and social conservatives on the control side, with freedom maybe represented by mystics and monastics), and the difference is the degree to which they focus on material versus social power. Progress says you can join if you want, while progressivism tries to bring everyone along. Neither is entirely honest, because due to differing preferences progressive movements cannot actually bring everyone along, which inevitably narrows their scope from everyone, to everyone who matters, and therefore forced exclusion. Critics of progress correctly note that when they are successful, they distort economic incentives until everyone else feels “forced” to join in, to something which did not follow the “correct” process or obtain “proper” permission. The question is whether you prefer coercion to come into the picture after validation from social consensus or economic reality.
Sympathetic Opposition with an evopsych model for why status competition occurs among moms. Fits more broadly into her general model of female status competition, which reminds me a lot of the common failure mode of progressive politics (which does not seem to me to be due to anything like internalizing the patriarchy).
Ada Palmer with Renaissance sexual gossip.
