Astral Codex Ten

Roots Of Progress

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Roots Of Progress

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Roots Of Progress is a recurring organization in the Astral Codex Ten archive, appearing 4 times across 4 issues between September 20, 2021 and November 10, 2023. The archive places it in contexts such as “whose Roots Of Progress blog is now a nonprofit organization”; “Jason Crawford from Roots of Progress”; “pro-progress types have Roots of Progress”. It most often appears alongside Twitter, 23andme, Alyssa.

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  • Category: Organizations
  • Mention count: 4
  • Issue count: 4
  • First seen: September 20, 2021
  • Last seen: November 10, 2023

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Recovered passages from the original issue text. When the raw archive preserved outbound links inside the source passage, they are listed directly under the quote.

Links For September
September 20, 2021 · Original source
14: Congratulations to Jason Crawford, whose Roots Of Progress blog is now a nonprofit organization working within Tyler Cowen, Patrick Collison, etc’s Progress Studies movement to “[establish] a new philosophy of progress for the twenty-first century”. They are fundraising and also looking for a Chief of Staff.
Inline links: Roots Of Progress, a nonprofit organization, Chief of Staff
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October 18, 2022 · Original source
Jason Crawford from Roots of Progress
Inline links: Jason Crawford
Quests And Requests
November 03, 2023 · Original source
An acquaintance who does have influence with hundreds of women and a great plan to solve the scaling problem has expressed interest in addressing this problem once she’s done with other projects, and I wouldn’t want a less qualified person to yank it away from her. I don’t know if I have permission to give more details. This one is less a request for people to step up and incubate this project so much as trying to produce common knowledge of all of this and be open to anyone who wants to start coordinating. 7. A foundation to promote classical art and architecture Skills needed: art/design knowledge, social skills, administrative/entrepreneurial skills Budget: Some large amount of money from an outside funder, some large amount of your time? Payoff: A more beautiful world Poll after poll shows that Americans prefer classical art and architecture, here used as a catchall term for styles that old-fashioned, ornate, symmetric, elegant, etc - eg neo-classical, Gothic revival, Art Nouveau, Art Deco. In the rare cases when someone builds something like this, people love it and it becomes an instant tourist attraction. But 99% of the time, we get the same Brutalist cubes, modernist blobs, starchitect crumpled paper, or lowest-common-denominator five-over-one apartments. I’ve been trying to figure out why for a while. Some of it is cost, some of it is regulation, and some of it is elite opinion. But every so often someone successfully builds something classical and proves that it’s still possible in theory: As far as I know, proponents of classical architecture don’t have an aegis organization the same way charter city proponents have CCI or pro-progress types have Roots of Progress. Plenty of billionaires complain about the decay of art and architecture on Twitter, so there must be money available for something like this. All it needs is a founder. An classical architecture aegis organization would: Talk with architects, city planners, construction companies, and end clients to figure out what the major barriers to older architectural styles are.
Inline links: crumpled paper, trying to figure out why for a while, CCI, Roots of Progress
Followup: Quests And Requests
November 10, 2023 · Original source
> “As far as I know, proponents of classical architecture don’t have an aegis organization the same way charter city proponents have CCI or pro-progress types have Roots of Progress."