Ie the distribution hasn't shifted at all. The span between saints and psychopaths, has remained the same. The median mediocrity has had about the same amount of moral fiber throughout. What has changed is opportunity structure to be good/evil in the environment.
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The most sophisticated tech in the planet is the human himself. We have managed to use tech for external convenience, now we could do with some progress in learning how to work on our interiority.
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I would say the perceived moral progress largely consists of increased signaling. While actually practicing morality still has a cost, tech has reduced the cost of signaling morality to near zero.
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If you've never witness poverty, you'd also know that scarcity makes people vicious. As wealth is created, people become gentler. You could make the argument that they can become too soft and that's the problem with places that are falling behind economically with no work ethics
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That's an argument that "less vicious" is the most important moral good. As opposed to, eg, swift and certain retribution. Or total social homogeneity. Or massive on-going very public piety. All we can say is we do better by OUR standards.
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I think it happens in the other direction: managing complexity pushes toward nonviolent (I.e., stable) structures.
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I would consider the expansion of human rights through most societies (some more than others) to be a positive change along a moral dimension. Yes technology plays a role, but along with it our intersubjective process of ruling ourselves, politics, has also improved.
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As we were saying regarding signaling...
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