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Michael Huemer - Anarchy, Capitalism, and Progress
Dwarkesh Podcast
Will Moral Progress Slow Down?
There's a maximum point everything, right? But that doesn't mean that it will happen soon. Eventually civilization will collapse, all die. Eventually the human species will go extinct. It could be in the next hundred years, or it could be in a million years. I think this is similar to other bits of progress that have occurred in history. A lot of the stuff people were doing in the past was super stupid - not only bad, but stupid. There's no reason why they should get to do things you consider immoral if anyone else does them.
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