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graemeplast Tuesday at 2:12 PM1 replyview on HN

OK, its not a logical fallacy, its a false assumption.

The belief in the inevitability of progress is a bad assumption. Especially if you assume a particular technology will keep advancing.


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mikkupikkulast Tuesday at 4:08 PM

We won't know if his assumption is false until time passes and moves future speculation into the empirical present.

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