> Stop climate change and prevent pandemics and so there are all these terrible things that people are worried about and if we can just not have them, then mayb

> Stop climate change and prevent pandemics and so there are all these terrible things that people are worried about and if we can just not have them, then maybe that’s a bright future, but that’s not actually a better future than today. It’s just avoiding a worse one. He should study the notion of priority before thinking about philosophy. That's much more in its abilities. > Here’s the case as clearly and concisely as I can make it. Consider the 50-year period that ended about 100 years ago, from 1870 to 1920, let’s say. In this period, we got by my count, five major innovations. Between 1870 and 1920 one had WW1. So maybe there wasn't much progress on peace ? > One is the burden of regulation, which has grown enormously. Regulation is progress in handling innovation.