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The AI debate reflects a deeper philosophical conflict about the value and risks of knowledge itself.
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The internet is one of the greatest inventions of all time. It democratizes knowledge, enhances productivity, and enables easy communication.
Thankfully, internet access is rapidly growing. As of 2024, over 70% of humanity used the internet—up from 38% just ten years earlier.
Explore the data: humanprogress.org/dataset/in…
Read more about this trend: humanprogress.org/trends/int…
The same mandates that have increased access to mental-health care have made overdiagnosis and overmedication the path of least resistance for a generation of clinicians and patients.
From @AdamOmaryPhD: humanprogress.org/behind-the…
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Europe’s AC phobia has fueled an irrational health panic.
European media, consumer groups, and even the French government have said that cooling a room to more than 15 degrees below the outdoor temperature can trigger “thermal shock.” The condition, they say, causes nausea, fainting, or even respiratory arrest.
This ailment is mysteriously absent from the United States, where indoor temperatures are often kept at around 75 degrees even when it’s 100 degrees outside.
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Infanticide was once almost universally accepted and is recorded in nearly every civilization.
In her new book, The Grim Old Days, @chellivia confronts the brutal realities of preindustrial life that modern nostalgia tends to forget.
Order your copy today: amazon.com/Grim-Old-Days-Int…
There is a big problem with the autism epidemic: It doesn’t exist.
In many cases, the kid labeled “on the spectrum” is the same train‑obsessed third‑grader your grandfather knew, only now he’s been assigned a diagnosis.
From @AdamOmaryPhD: humanprogress.org/the-myth-o…
About one-third of US states passed deregulatory housing reforms in 2026, according to a new analysis by The Pew Charitable Trusts.
The measures vary by state but include loosening zoning restrictions, eliminating parking requirements, streamlining permitting processes, relaxing staircase and elevator requirements, and legalizing accessory dwelling units, all of which could reduce construction costs and help expand the housing supply.
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I haven't recommended a book in awhile but after seeing this one discussed on @JonahDispatch 's podcast I bought it and have been devouring it ever since. The author is Chelsea Follett (@chellivia) and she's written a "banger" as the kids say. There is a wealth of fascinating information here and it's encyclopedic in its breadth and depth. This is a great book. Period. And I wholeheartedly endorse Mr. Goldberg's idea that there should be a version for high schoolers and kids ... a sort of "top ten grossest things from the past ..."
Charity can do good, but business can do better.
Charity moves existing resources toward chosen ends.
Business, when it works, creates new value by reorganizing labor, capital, knowledge, and logistics.
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"We see towns in Argentina in the most backward provinces where maybe 50 percent of all people are cashing in a disability payment."
– @hiperfalcon on the need for pension reform in Argentina.
Full interview: humanprogress.org/marcos-fal…
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Just fifteen years ago, less than half of U.S. adults thought same-sex marriages should be valid under the law.
In 2025, 68% did, down from a peak of 71% in 2023.
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Americans have never been richer.
By nearly every objective measure, the average American lives better than his grandparents did, and the vast majority of Americans report being satisfied with their own lives.
At the same time, they have rarely been angrier about the state of the country.
That suggests national pessimism tells us less about how Americans are actually living than about how they perceive their country—an opinion they develop primarily through negatively biased news and social media.
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The autonomous drone delivery company Zipline is rapidly expanding its US operations.
The company, which pioneered medical drone deliveries in Africa, has raised $1.5 billion to grow its US business and signed an agreement with Walmart to establish 300 new drone delivery sites, in addition to the 21 sites the companies currently operate together.
In 18th-century Britain, wealthy people sometimes rented pineapples just to display them at dinner parties.
The exotic fruit was so rare and expensive that simply possessing one was a status symbol.
Today, you can buy one at the grocery store for a few dollars.
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For most of human history, we could not support idle hands. Everyone had to work, no matter how young or old.
But thanks to economic growth and automation, children and the elderly are being liberated from labor.
Explore the data: humanprogress.org/dataset/av…
Degrowthers often appeal to the intuition that economic growth must end because continuous growth is impossible.
The economist Kenneth Boulding famously argued that infinite growth is impossible on a planet with finite resources (and, he added, that only a madman or an economist would think otherwise).
But the claim that we should slow growth now does not follow from the claim that growth is finite. The finitude of growth tells us nothing about when growth might end.
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