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Executive summary: This reading list and summary provides an overview of key economic growth theory papers relevant to both global development and AI progress within effective altruism, covering foundational concepts, AI-focused models, and development-oriented theories.
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Executive summary: An advanced human civilization decodes an alien message encoded in star brightness patterns, reverse-engineers the aliens' physics and technology, and ultimately escapes their simulated universe.
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Executive summary: Charts and data visualizations can be misleading even when not intentionally manipulated, requiring careful scrutiny of underlying assumptions and methodologies to avoid drawing false conclusions.
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Executive summary: Investment in public transport infrastructure over the last decade has been slightly more cost-effective in London than outside of London, with implications for future UK government investment decisions to reduce CO2 emissions.
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Executive summary: James Scott's book "Seeing Like A State" critiques high modernist, state-driven attempts to impose order on complex systems, arguing that local knowledge and organic development are often superior to top-down planning.
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Executive summary: Universal Basic Income (UBI) proposals are not well-designed to address technological unemployment, as they are too expensive and rely on unsustainable financing mechanisms in a post-labor economy.
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Executive summary: The author proposes 9 principles for mental health and therapy that they believe are comparatively neglected, aiming to address perceived issues in current therapeutic approaches and pop psychology.
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Executive summary: A workshop using the Delphi-Hall Loop framework explored ways to advance synthetic biology, generating ideas for research and testing a new collective decision-making process.
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Executive summary: Ranil Dissanayake, a senior fellow at the Center for Global Development, shares insights from his career in development economics, emphasizing the importance of writing, communicating ideas, and engaging with diverse perspectives.
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Executive summary: A new paper reframes cryonics as structural brain preservation, focusing on maintaining the brain's physical structure to potentially enable future revival technologies, with fluid preservation emerging as a promising and cost-effective method.
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