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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feminism/suffrage --> women in workforce during WWII --> any innovation they made
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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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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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post-Victorian west did get more prudish than before, yes. But history has largely been homophobic afaict
some societies created narrow legit spaces for them (Rome, Afghanistan, normalized gay men somewhat, but also pedophilia)
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and remember 'normal' just means there's a 'we won't kill you' place for something, not that that place is good.
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