@GabrielDuquette @St_Rev @sarahdoingthing in context it seems to mean "the better method isn't something we tried that didn't work"
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@St_Rev@ozymandias314@GabrielDuquette@sarahdoingthing ...result of continued optimisation pressure in the absence of such degeneration -
@St_Rev@ozymandias314@GabrielDuquette@sarahdoingthing predictably eliminating problems in all domains is what a functional world *does* -
@tipsfromkatee@ozymandias314@GabrielDuquette@sarahdoingthing But the problems themselves change over time.
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@St_Rev@drethelin@ozymandias314@GabrielDuquette@sarahdoingthing there's a christ-free story to be told about the cumulative effects... -
@St_Rev@drethelin@ozymandias314@GabrielDuquette@sarahdoingthing ...of a civilisation's problem-solving optimisation pressure
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@St_Rev@ozymandias314@GabrielDuquette@sarahdoingthing ...and if it isn't then that may suggest some degeneration process is at work also -
@St_Rev@ozymandias314@GabrielDuquette@sarahdoingthing i think i used to believe in Progress because it seemed like the default...
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@St_Rev@ozymandias314@GabrielDuquette@sarahdoingthing i don't think Progress is real but there's a sense in which it should have been...Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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