State of the World

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2025

  • Steven Pinker - [1]. Overall progress.
  • We hide progress because good things happening do not make the news - and news emphasizes negative. Bad news is journalism. Good news is advertising.
  • We have gruesome addition to bad news. If you follow news too much and don't look at graphs enough, you get distortion.'
  • Abundant energy is possible -bats & small nukes. Goddammit.
  • 80000 hours

2019

https://www.vox.com/future-perfect/2019/11/27/20984462/thanksgiving-poverty-health-crime-literacy-good-news