This is easy. We just have to measure how much technology changed from year to year for the last 100 years or so, and then eyeball the curve. Does anyone have that data?
Yes, irony. All the burden here is on the commenters, and if they had great ideas they should post them at the top themselves. It’s kind of a poisonous time-sink pattern to ask a quantitative question about an extremely fuzzy concept. The math circuits light up and expect to be able to provide an answer. The best philosophers have fallen prey to bad questions. I also like nazgul’s reference to wittgenstein.
If you swapped out technology with GDP, my comment is straightforward.
This is easy. We just have to measure how much technology changed from year to year for the last 100 years or so, and then eyeball the curve. Does anyone have that data?
I’m not sure whether you’re being ironic.
Yes, irony. All the burden here is on the commenters, and if they had great ideas they should post them at the top themselves. It’s kind of a poisonous time-sink pattern to ask a quantitative question about an extremely fuzzy concept. The math circuits light up and expect to be able to provide an answer. The best philosophers have fallen prey to bad questions. I also like nazgul’s reference to wittgenstein.
If you swapped out technology with GDP, my comment is straightforward.