What do our (supposed) intellectual elite know about human progress? Repost: https://www.facebook.com/permalink.php?story_fbid=165938533888688&id=100014176268390 … Intro excerpted belowpic.twitter.com/DRaMaYqnNy
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This suggests that I have either run into loud fools in the past, or that eg: twitter length limits are making people appear foolish. But I do see those sorts of charts used more for a "we have no problems" narrative than a "we have better problems" narrative.
Can you point to a specific example? I'd be curious to see it (though definitely wouldn't wade in). I think understanding broad positive changes is very important, since it gives us strong hints about what works.
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For instance, in talking to people about the drop in infant mortality, people make many different hypotheses (better hygiene; urbanization; more doctors; etc). Understanding which have contributed most versus which have contributed little seems worth doing.
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(This specific example is of interest to me: I don't understand this well, and would like to understand better.)
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For length limits, see
@MaxCRoser's tweets though his focus seems to have changed somewhat since I was last seeing lots of them (2014-15). Somewhat related to what you're interested in would be infant mortality vs life expectancy, but that's more 'random facebookers/youtubers'. -
I read his twitter, and haven't noticed an instance where he does this. I have noticed numerous cases where he points out the opposite - big problems we still have. Can you point to even just a single specific example?
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