roystgnr comments on Maybe we're not doomed - Less Wrong
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This is true, at least loosely speaking. I'm not sure why you were downvoted. Inducting from "nothing has ever permanently won" to "nothing ever will" would be overconfident, but noticing that nothing has ever permanently won and examining the reasons why might be very instructive.