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pretoriusB on Nov 14, 2012 | parent | context | favorite | on: First robots have arrived in plan to replace 1 mil...

Notice though, how you define "progress" as "more stuff".

I'm not that convinced that even life expectancy raises are to be automatically qualified as progress.

Is life and civilization merely a quantitative issue?

Should the life in today's L.A., for example, be qualified as progress over the conditions of, say, early 20th century Vienna?

Symmetry on Nov 14, 2012 [–]

Please believe that when I said "progress in human material conditions" I meant progress in human material conditions rather than progress in general.

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