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Progress has an unfair advantage: the impact of destructive actions is bounded, but the impact of constructive actions is not. One jump forward can outweigh many steps backwards.
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What is so "unfair" about progress through constructive actions?
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I'll remember that when setting up a model.
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What is the impact of destructive actions bounded by?
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I'd like to inform of that bound to the people in charge of nuclear arsenals :_)
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What if when you think you are progressing but actually you are actually regressing?
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Yeah, but destruction is much easier than construction. In one evening, hundreds of years of progress may be destroyed.
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Yet distroying can be easily done by many, while building and advancing require more effort and it's not within everyone's reach
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Well then what makes forwards as compared to backwards. The steps which we thought took us forward perhaps will take us backward, but could those (now unproductive) steps in a similar and unwitting way induce good in the future when hindsight returns to 20/20, eg. via correction
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