1/ Progress is a 3-way contest between has-beens, never-was-es and could-have-beens. When all grumpily accept each other, things get better.
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interesting, but this is posed (at least on my reading) as if an equilibrium between these 3 can be reached; not sure that there is one
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it is also a bit ambiguous in terms of a normative v descriptive stance. Is it a negotiation heuristic or an empirical regulatory?
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it's a descriptive stance...it's what actually happens unless somebody decides to go Hitler/Stalin.
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but that reflects a survivorship bias. I kind of like it as negotiation heuristic- need to construct a win-win w/all parties to succeed
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I think negotiation only delays, does not determine. Not quite tech determinism, but not social determinism either.
