The arc of the moral universe is basically a random walk.
Occasionally a tech advance makes it slightly easier to be nice and slightly more pointless to be nasty. We then congratulate ourselves for having “evolved.”
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Does this view of human moral evolution imply any testable hypotheses? Any predictions that might get proven or disproven over the next 25y?
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Can’t think of any, but controlling for abundance created by technology and scientific knowledge I can detect no real net moral “progress” in history. People in 500BC seem about as likely to be good/bad as today.
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but because presentist interests need an appearance-of-progress, the arc of the moral universe is gussied-up, to be perceived like an ever-rising 'shepard tone'
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the moral arc of the universe rises towards justice like a Shepard tone en.wivipedia.org/wiki/Shepard_t
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I'd argue not. Humans innately understand some construct of morality. In order to assess morality and its arc, one must first understand it. It is not random.
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