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    1. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr 6 May 2019
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      Almost all moral progress is likely due to tech making it easier and more profitable to be good rather than evil by any moral system you choose. I think humans have changed along a lot of dimensions over cultural-evolutionary history but the moral dimension ain't one of them

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      Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr 6 May 2019
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      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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        1.  🤧 🌎‏ @atthatmatt 6 May 2019
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          Are you assuming absolute scales for morality?

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        2. Nate Angell‏ @xolotl 6 May 2019
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          Hrm. A hypothesis that remains to be held up to convincing accounts of big shifts in moral epistemes (eg, Neitzsche).

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        3. Maynard Handley‏ @handleym99 6 May 2019
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          Yeah, it's unclear to me how much is just alternative choices for moral framework. Live by law vs live by honor. Winning vs mercy. Size of Peter Singer's expanding circle. Equality is all vs blood is all. Of course we view OUR choices as the best ones, AND (mostly) exhibit them.

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        1. Merijn‏ @Merijnnij 6 May 2019
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          Not being evil doesn't necessarily equate to being good. As living standards increase, a lot of incentives for evil behaviour disappear & people's morality is tested less frequently. Just by being alive in easy conditions, without actively being evil, you are assumed to be good.

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        1. entirelyuseless‏ @entirelyuseles 6 May 2019
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          This is mostly true but doesn't tell the whole story. Among other things people now are probably much less violent than in the past due to artificial selection against people with violent tendencies (capital punishment weeding out genetic traits likely to produce murderers.)

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        1. Isaac M. Morehouse‏ @isaacmorehouse 6 May 2019
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          I call this moral technology.https://isaacmorehouse.com/2013/03/09/institutions-can-improve-even-if-people-dont/ …

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        1. Tyagarajan‏ @tyags6 6 May 2019
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          But are we still using the old lens to view morality? Would a company affecting millions by slow death through emissions get qualified the same or more immoral than thousands of fuedal lords torturing their serfs.

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