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The Techno-Humanist Manifesto, Chapter 4: The Life Well-Lived (part 2)

Techno-humanism embraces the need for meaning, but rejects the idea that meaning is eroded by material progress. Material progress has greatly increased the amount of meaning in individual lives, and it can continue to do so—if we let it, and if we choose it.

The Techno-Humanist Manifesto, Chapter 4: The Life Well-Lived (part 2)

Techno-humanism embraces the need for meaning, but rejects the idea that meaning is eroded by material progress. Material progress has greatly increased the amount of meaning in individual lives, and it can continue to do so—if we let it, and if we choose it.

https://newsletter.rootsofprogress.org/p/the-life-well-lived-part-2

Founder, The Roots of Progress (rootsofprogress.org). I write about the history of technology and the philosophy of progress. Former tech founder.

The only problem is externality pricing.

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Are they? What is the tell? Midjourney made this… prompt was basically “family sitting around the living room reading books”

Same way it's been doing for 200 years, mostly.

Faster if all poor countries can improve their institutions to allow faster economic development, as some have already done.

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How does “material progress” reach the billions of people living in abject poverty in your projected future?