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History is not a monotonically increasing function of progress. Things can and often do get worse in the short term and there's no reason the past can't be bett
by minikites 6y ago
History is not a monotonically increasing function of progress. Things can and often do get worse in the short term and there's no reason the past can't be better than the present.
- gadders 6y agoYou could say now is a local minimum, but in what time period? Out of the last twenty years? Maybe. The last hundred? Probably not.