Progress Studies
from Warpcast
Leo Nasskau added 3mo ago
Takes that aged badly: see this from 1937 the problem with our modern world is all of these newfangled toilets and umbrellas get rid of the books!
andrea added 5mo ago
- once we had machines to do labor, we could afford to stop treating humans like machines.
from The Morality of Having Kids in a Magical, Maybe Simulated World by Packy McCormick
andrea added 7mo ago
- do you ever find it weird that as a culture we decided that “progress” just means advancement in technology and numbers on a spreadsheet, and that things like moral advancement, human joy, positive relationships, fulfillment, psychological development, and purpose don’t count?
phoebe added 8mo ago
phoebe added 8mo ago
- Malthus was wrong. We make MORE food than ever with LESS land than ever. Because we have one inexhaustible resource— Human ingenuity.
andrea added 8mo ago
- Governments sporadically got things spectacularly wrong. In 1865, the rail and horse-drawn carriage lobbies in the U.K. drummed up enough outrage to pass the Locomotive Act, whose most notable feature was an absurd requirement that a man walk in front of any self-propelled vehicle waving a red flag and blowing a horn. It stunted the U.K. automobile... See more
from Towards guardrails, not guidelines: a policy framework for powerful AI systems by Matt Boulos
Leo Nasskau added 9mo ago
phoebe added 9mo ago
- Progress is mostly about what does not happen. Progress means a 92-year-old who did not die today, a boy who was not robbed on his way to school, a 12-year girl who is not married to a 30-year old man, etc. What did not happen does not make the news. The best parts of civilization don’t get headlined.
from 💡 Kevin Kelly: The Case for Optimism by Kevin Kelly
sari added 10mo ago