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phil
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Welcome to @jasoncrawford.eth! Jason is the founder of The Roots of Progress, a non-profit dedicated to progress studies. In addition, he has served as an advisor for Our World in Data and as a guest lecturer at MIT. His essay, We Need A New Philosophy of Progress, is one of the best arguments for techno-optimism that I've read: https://rootsofprogress.org/we-need-a-new-philosophy-of-progress/ He has agreed to do an AMA for the /books channel as part of the ongoing Silicon Valley Canon course. Reply with your questions. :)
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FluffheadChaser
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Hello and thank you for the AMA! Do you believe that people mistake progress that is more or less advancement in entertainment consumption for that of material progress that advances us as a society? Are we going slow when a lot of people think we're progressing fast?
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Jason Crawford
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Entertainment is a real value, and advances in entertainment are a form of progress! Re the speed of progress, I do think it has slowed down over the last ~50 years, although it's still faster than at any time before the Industrial Revolution. https://blog.rootsofprogress.org/technological-stagnation
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