Having a wide consensus for one’s view is certainly an advantage, but I don’t see how the rest follows from that. The direction that we want to call progress would just depend on what each of us sees as progress.
To use Brian’s article as an example, this would, to me, include interventions among wild animals for example with vaccines and birth control, but that’s probably antithetical to the idea of progress of many environmentalists and even Gene Roddenberry.
What do you mean by being “wrong” about the badness of slavery? Maybe that it would be unwise to address the problem of slavery under an ISIS-like regime because it would have zero tractability and keep us from implementing more tractable improvements since we would be executed?
Having a wide consensus for one’s view is certainly an advantage, but I don’t see how the rest follows from that. The direction that we want to call progress would just depend on what each of us sees as progress.
To use Brian’s article as an example, this would, to me, include interventions among wild animals for example with vaccines and birth control, but that’s probably antithetical to the idea of progress of many environmentalists and even Gene Roddenberry.
What do you mean by being “wrong” about the badness of slavery? Maybe that it would be unwise to address the problem of slavery under an ISIS-like regime because it would have zero tractability and keep us from implementing more tractable improvements since we would be executed?
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