@fchollet you're one of the few people i know who likes to argue the world is overwhelmingly getting better, i'm curious to hear your thoughts on this https://www.opendemocracy.net/transformation/jeremy-lent/steven-pinker-s-ideas-are-fatally-flawed-these-eight-graphs-show-why …
Most things are getting better. The state of our environment is not one of them. And the US is kind of an outlier on most fronts, as usual.
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You also have to see through first order effects and look at the derivatives. A lot of the current bad news is the legacy of terrible choices made in the past. But we do appear to be growing wiser as a species. Although this will take time to become fully apparent.
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