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XorNottoday at 3:01 PM1 replyview on HN

When asking for moral progress rather then technological progress, it's not an inverse.

People can build technology, or I can build technology, but we generally all get it. Its distribution requires nothing of me or others psychologically.

You can't just build and distribute morality, and adopting it is a massive personal change.


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tovejtoday at 6:54 PM

You can build and distribute morality. It's called politics. Or religion. Or culture. Or marketing. Or propaganda. Or education.

There's so many ways in which morality is distributed.

There are also many things that stand in the way of adopting technology. Cost. Personal preference. Moral preference. Availability. Lack of awareness. Lack of specialized skill.

The two are not very different at all in how they diffuse through society.