Rationality Quotes September 2012

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You're not making arguments.
The points you raise are not responsive to the points that either he or I made.
If it increases total aggregate utility. Tribes were small, there weren't very many people. I'm also not sure how happy most tribes were. Additionally, bad moral societies might be necessary to transition to awesome ones.
You conflate moral and economic progress in your second paragraph.
A financial system which collapses probably isn't too healthy. It still might have improved things overall through its pre-collapse operations though.

Universal pay does not even seem possible now.

You do not answer the question and conflate the questions

How is economic progress measured - if you say the aggraegate utility please explain how that is measured.?

How is moral progress measured?

My argument is simple - the measure of either of these is based on poor heuristics.