tech determinism and social determinism are standard ways of talking about these things... there's Wikipedia entries on them
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Replying to @vgr
I was giving dumbed down example of how general improvement frees up better morality but ppl might confuse causality
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Replying to @turrible_tao
yes, that's tech determinism! Causality often but not always, works that way. Values can evolve first and cause tech evol too
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Replying to @turrible_tao
feminism/suffrage --> women in workforce during WWII --> any innovation they made
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Replying to @vgr
that wasnt values that was necessity, also poor woman have always worked
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Replying to @turrible_tao @vgr
the value of woman working too didnt precede that it was a war
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Replying to @turrible_tao
I could do this infinite regress all day, which should suggest there's chicken-egg feedback loop between values and evolution
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Replying to @turrible_tao
my mental model is that the values genome always contains far more than is expressionless in current environment.
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gays have existed forever, but look at steady rise in their level of contribution...Turing is foundation of modernity now
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Replying to @vgr
there was a president who fucked men and nobody thought it was that weird concept of gay is probably new
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Replying to @turrible_tao
post-Victorian west did get more prudish than before, yes. But history has largely been homophobic afaict
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