Shifting reference point
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Though it’s also what drives continuous improvement.
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Agreed it’s the engine of the moral arc. Just shouldn’t lead to dispair or a failure to recognize the types of solutions that do work.
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Agree completely
@BoyanSlat . Recognizing the legitimate challenges of today shouldn't keep us from appreciating the legitimate solutions of the past.
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Leave the papers, come to Mexico and live the real world Explain Progress to a child with fake cancer treatment in Veracruz Everything depends on the perspective of the observer
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Objective measures of progress will still exist regardless of what individuals have to deal with.
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Lol ... the scientific explanation of
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Could this explain the hand-wringing and moral panic over the overzealous activities of isolated groups of students that members of the
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People just love problems...
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maybe it's more like, people love resolving whatever problems surround them.
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Pinker: people lower the bar for stuff to complain about Stupid people: oh yeah?? What about my pet problem that would have killed me 50 years ago??? Is that lowering the bar?? Tell me I’m not suffering here in my air conditioned flat while tweeting on my smart phone!!
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On a micro level a similar thing happens due to the Kano Model, in user experience, people get excited by new things and then when they are ubiquitous they no longer find them novel and expect them to exist
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@DavidDeutschOxf Would be interesting yo hear your take on this! Isn't finding new fun and interesting problems fundamentally a good thing? And by what static criteria should we consider these new problems less important than our older problems? -
'Problem' is used to mean 'distressing state of mind' and its near-opposite 'something fun to think about' etc. See BoI pp16-18.
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True in medicine, too: hence disease expansion, medicalization of normal, overdiagnosis
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The problems morph into “first world problems”
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May explain how political correctness becomes overbearing.
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Progress should never be used to explain away the awful things still happening with regards to ourselves as a species and our collective burden on the rest of the biosphere.
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The appetite grows by what it feeds on.
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