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tech_kenlast Tuesday at 2:52 PM1 replyview on HN

Right but “upgrading to the next level” is exactly the type of cognitive error that I’m against, it’s forward-looking Whig history. There is no “levels” of civilization, there’s only the arrangements we have now and the ones that will occur in the future. Maybe those arrangements will have different pros and cons than we have now, maybe they’ll have more sophisticated engineering practices, but there’s no objective “development score” that is being maximized it’s just more humanity.


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fc417fc802last Tuesday at 5:59 PM

It's an abstraction, not an error. Naturally you might or might not agree with any individual's underlying metrics, and them with yours.

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