What Jason Crawford thinks about physics

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Founder of the Roots of Progress Institute, who left a software career to write full time about the history and philosophy of technological progress — how it happened, why it took so long, and whether it has slowed.

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1. 16 Aug 2023

   Our readingScience can identify problems but cannot by itself tell us what to do about them.

   Their wordsPhysics, chemistry and biology can point out problems, but we need history, economics and philosophy to solve them.

   ↗What does it mean to “trust science”?rootsofprogress.org 3rd of 3 in this piece