Progress links and tweets, 2022-09-20

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7 Progress links and tweets, 2022-09-20

by jasoncrawford

20th Sep 2022

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The advantages of the Gutenberg movable type system over Asian predecessors

Queries

Where is there long-term data for the Bell Labs research budget? (@michael_nielsen)
Good histories of strain improvement for increasing industrial fermentation output? (@_brianpotter)
What’s your favorite essay/blog post of all time? (@packyM)

Tweets

Retweets

Cruise robotaxis soon going live in Phoenix and Austin (@olivercameron)
Can you spot which images are made by AI? (@MichaelTrazzi). I got 17/20, see the clues I used
Figma (just acquired for $20B) and Ethereum (market cap $180B) are both from Thiel Fellows (@regardthefrost)
On “closely-knit multi-generational communities” (@made_in_cosmos)

Pics

Me speaking at the Foresight Institute meetup (via @foresightinst, @thesfcommons, and @StephenGHubbard)

Progress StudiesWorld Modeling

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[-]ChristianKl2y20

The advantages of the Gutenberg movable type system over Asian predecessors

I think the author underrates Ulman Stromer. Stromer didn't just bring paper-making to Germany in 1390. Stromer managed to produce paper with a paper mill which is a lot cheaper than producing it without a paper mill.

The Chinese mostly produced paper manually. Their paper was more expensive.

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