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However, the goals I most often hear are all the negation of negatives: cure cancer, eliminate poverty, stop climate change.

All progress is solving problems in the end.

2jasoncrawford
Yes, but not all of it is well-understood as problem-solving ahead of time: https://blog.spec.tech/p/is-necessity-actually-the-mother 

Your concept of Sazen is really interesting. I think it's an attempt to name an effect that exists only in an incorrect epistemology. Let's see if anyone agrees or disagrees:

(This is based on Popper's epistemology as taught to me by David Deutsch through "the Beginning of Infinity".)

All knowledge is inexplicit. Meaning no language can "capture" the idea. Instead all knowledge transfer relies on giving the listener enough clues to themselves recreate the knowledge on their own. Then applying the label to it.

Example1: 
When you learn your first language,... (read more)

4Duncan Sabien (Deactivated)
I don't think I quite agree that all knowledge is inexplicit (or at least, I think something funny is going on with that phrase). But I agree that this-thing-I'm-pointing-at-and-calling-sazen has a lot to do with capturing the attribute of truth rather than transmitting a learnable piece of knowledge.