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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@vgr it is also a bit ambiguous in terms of a normative v descriptive stance. Is it a negotiation heuristic or an empirical regulatory?1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes -
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@GordonBrianR it's a descriptive stance...it's what actually happens unless somebody decides to go Hitler/Stalin.3 replies 0 retweets 0 likes -
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@vgr the problems that seem to arise here are always counterfactual harms, so its easy to discount them...1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes
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@GordonBrianR you can kill particular efforts locally, not resist an idea whose time has come globally.
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