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← Stagnation does not mean no progress; it means progress slower than the late 1800s to mid-1900s peak.
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Read this korrent: Stagnation does not mean no progress; it means progress slower than the late 1800s to mid-1900s peak.
Stagnation does not mean no progress; it means progress slower than the late 1800s to mid-1900s peak.
Last stated 6 years ago
23 Jan 2021
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Jason Crawford — holds since 2021-01-23 — tap for who they are
Same subject: Technological progress did not slow down from 1970 to the present, compared with its pre-1970 speed — tap to centre the map on it
Technological progress did not slow down from 1970 to the present, compared with its pre-1970 speed
Last stated 7 years ago
19 Nov 2019
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Scott Alexander — holds since 2014-01-01 — tap for who they are
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Scott Alexander — no longer holds since 2019-11-19 — tap for who they are
Same subject: Treating history as a march of progress makes whole eras and regions disappear, dismissed for having failed to advance it. — tap to centre the map on it
Treating history as a march of progress makes whole eras and regions disappear, dismissed for having failed to advance it.
Last stated 10 years ago
4 Jan 2017
AP
Ada Palmer — holds since 2017-01-04 — tap for who they are
Same subject: The case for a technological slowdown since about 1970 is not convincing. — tap to centre the map on it
The case for a technological slowdown since about 1970 is not convincing.
Last stated 6 years ago
23 Jan 2021
JC
Jason Crawford — no longer holds since 2021-01-23 — tap for who they are
Same subject: Sustained growth in living standards required productivity to accelerate and population growth to fall at the same time. — tap to centre the map on it
Sustained growth in living standards required productivity to accelerate and population growth to fall at the same time.
Last stated 4 years ago
11 Oct 2022
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Dietrich Vollrath — holds since 2022-10-11 — tap for who they are
Same subject: Growth always stops eventually, and only a company that instrumented its business beforehand gets to find out why instead of scrambling. — tap to centre the map on it
Growth always stops eventually, and only a company that instrumented its business beforehand gets to find out why instead of scrambling.
Last stated 12 months ago
21 Sept 2025
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Julie Zhuo — holds since 2025-09-21 — tap for who they are
Same subject: The last nine months have compressed decades of progress into weeks, and this is one of the rare moments a person gets to watch the world change inside their own lifetime. — tap to centre the map on it
The last nine months have compressed decades of progress into weeks, and this is one of the rare moments a person gets to watch the world change inside their own lifetime.
Last stated 2 weeks ago
26 Aug 2026
DH
David Heinemeier Hansson — holds since 2026-08-26 — tap for who they are
Same subject: Diagnosing stalled growth has a strict order, because fixing a later problem does nothing while an earlier one is still broken. — tap to centre the map on it
Diagnosing stalled growth has a strict order, because fixing a later problem does nothing while an earlier one is still broken.
Last stated 7 months ago
25 Jan 2026
JC
Jason Cohen — holds since 2026-01-25 — tap for who they are
Same subject: Progress is not natural or automatic: it happens only while people believe it is possible and desirable, and it can stop. — tap to centre the map on it
Progress is not natural or automatic: it happens only while people believe it is possible and desirable, and it can stop.
Last stated 6 years ago
12 Sept 2020
JC
Jason Crawford — holds since 2020-09-12 — tap for who they are
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