Citizen Science: Collison Question response

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This task will remain open until February 15th, 2022. Eligible submissions must (1) be written in essay form (2) have a publication date after January 17th, 2022 and (3) specifically answer one of the Collison Questions: https://patrickcollison.com/questions

Instructions:

1) Write an essay answering one of the Collison questions

2) Submit a link to the public post or a Google Doc with the essay draft

3) Specify which Collison question you are answering by selecting from the list in the form below

Essays should answer the question by taking a stance and making a case based on arguments and facts. I will select the best essays based on the quality of their arguments, not the extent to which they align with our views. Though good writing is important, judges will make allowances for those for whom English is not their first language.

What is the link to your post? (a public URL or Google doc link is fine) *

Which Collison Question does your submission answer? *

Why are certain things getting so much more expensive?

Why do there seem to be more examples of rapidly-completed major projects in the past than the present?

Why is GDP growth so weirdly constant?

How do you ensure an adequate replacement rate in systems that have no natural way to die?

How do we help more experimental cities get started?

How do people decide to make major life changes?

Why are there so many successful startups in Stockholm?

Is Bloom's "Two Sigma" phenomenon real? If so, what do we do about it?

How can we better understand the dynamics of progress in science?

Will end-user applications ever be truly programmable? If so, how?

What's the successor to the book? And how could books be improved?

What's the successor to the scientific paper and the scientific journal?

What's the right way to understand and model personality?

Could there be more good blogs?

Why are programming environments still so primitive?

What does religion cause?

Why is there no canon for life's most important questions?

Why are so many things so much nicer in Switzerland and Japan?

Why isn't China (yet) producing a lot of top-tier research?

Why don't we build nice neighborhoods any more?

What influences when people act in accordance with their self-interest and when they don't?

What's going on with infrastructure?

Why did climatic variability suddenly decline in the Holocene period?

ETH address for prize if your submission is chosen *

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