I don’t think this logic can be applied uniformly across areas of progress, nor should it be assumed to remain true over time (if it ever was). No doubt some d

I don’t think this logic can be applied uniformly across areas of progress, nor should it be assumed to remain true over time (if it ever was). No doubt some developments were well worth their initial risk, but other developments have been demonstrably the opposite. As the environment gets more critically out of whack, the weight of that risk increases as does the risk itself. And as time goes on, the increasing complexity of the developments we call “progress” means we’re less and less likely to understand their impact. Hopefully this will be counteracted by better and better models of the world.