In 2019, Patrick Collison wrote a piece with Tyler Cowen for The Atlantic. In it, they stated that “there is no broad-based intellectual movement focused on understanding the dynamics of progress, or targeting the deeper goal of speeding it up. We believe that it deserves a dedicated field of study. We suggest inaugurating the discipline of ‘Progress Studies’.” A year earlier, Collison had written another piece for the same site with Michael Nielsen, where they noted the growth in public investment in science and asked: “But for all this increase in effort, are we getting a proportional increase in our scientific…

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