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javert on July 23, 2015 | parent | context | favorite | on: NASA’s Kepler Mission Discovers Bigger, Older Cous...

You seem to be assuming a notion of continual human progress. In a few hundred years, we'll probably be in another Dark Age, judging by current trends. We're like the Roman Empire in 200 AD.

Progress is the exception, not the rule, so far in human history.

deciplex on July 24, 2015 [–]

> Progress is the exception, not the rule, so far in human history.

You're either cherry-picking your intervals or have a very weird definition of "progress".

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