Here’s a superb article by Ronald Bailey of Purpose journal. Excerpt:
The contours of the brand new progress motion stretch from the Human Progress mission on the libertarian Cato Institute to the “eco-modernist” initiatives on the Breakthrough Institute and the Pritzker Innovation Fund. 4 comparatively new teams on the forefront of the pro-progress forces are The Roots of Progress, the Institute for Progress, The Progress Community, and Works in Progress. Collectively, they’re—as The Progress Community places it—”constructing an concept motion that speaks to a greater future in a world dominated by voices that recommend a worse one.”
And:
The heads of all 4 organizations cite the animating affect of the July 2019 Atlantic article “We Want a New Science of Progress,” written by Cowen and Patrick Collison, the billionaire founding father of the web funds firm Stripe. “The success of Progress Research will come from its means to establish efficient progress-increasing interventions and the extent to which they’re adopted by universities, funding businesses, philanthropists, entrepreneurs, coverage makers, and different establishments,” Cowen and Collison argued. “In that sense, Progress Research is nearer to drugs than biology: The objective is to deal with, not merely to grasp.”
Cowen and Collison are concerned within the actions in different methods too. Each The Roots of Progress and Works in Progress have acquired grants from the Emergent Ventures mission, administered by Cowen. Works in Progress turned a part of Stripe Press in 2022.
Really useful, fascinating all through.
