A weird trend: a lot of people I know are going back to look at stuff done in the 1960s to help with their current work.
e.g. @LaureneTran91 with firm economics, @patrickc with scientific project management, @gauravvman with RNA, and ofc @nickarner and I with human augmentation
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Tech optimists in positions of institutional power maybe
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“We find that, historically, progress and innovation are directly correlated with utterances of ‘bash the commies’” - Brookings Institute, probably
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That’s a great policy recommendation but I don’t think that’s it More that you had an “establishment” of pro-science people in business and government before the hippies revolted
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can you dumb this down for me how was the switch from long-term deterministic (dare to say optimistic) thinking to short term economic gains pushed by students looking for "world peace/unity"?
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This is an unintentionally hilarious tweet
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Search for e.g. "1970s tax revolt" for the economic side of the cultural shift happening at that time
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Not to state the obvious, but in the 60s we had a clear goal - get to the moon - and we achieved that in 1969. Humans are at their best when striving for something new, not competing for scarce resources.
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Not a complete picture, but related: Vietnam broke institutional risk tolerance on the USG side. A big culture war broke a lot of other stuff. Nobody bothered to emphasize returning to status quo ante growth because life was comfortable enough to avoid dramatic political change.
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Collective ambition?
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