# List of progress studies questions * What is the distribution of timescales it took people to exploit phenomena over time and the reasons behind those timescales would be good for * See [[It takes roughly 20 years to exploit a phenomenon at scale]] * What is the role of expectations in progress? Sometimes expectations push things to be done faster, but sometimes they bury a project under hype. * [[Could you model dispersion as a second order linear differential equation like a LRC circuit or a spring-mass-damper system?]] * [[When is externalized research better than internalized research and vice versa?]] * [[Why aren’t people building more institutions?]] * [[Do programs that fall out of scope for present institutions have a large threshold cost? If so what is it?]] - [ ] Go through questions and fill them in here ### Related * [[What is the ontology of constraints on progress?]] <!-- #list --> [Web URL for this note](http://notes.benjaminreinhardt.com/List+of+progress+studies+questions) [Comment on this note](http://via.hypothes.is/http://notes.benjaminreinhardt.com/List+of+progress+studies+questions)