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Jason Crawford, Roots of Progress | Why We Need A New Philosophy of Progress

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The Dark Horse Theory of Progress in the US and Western Democracies

The world is converging on a fairly homogenous regulatory structure and approach to problems. I think there was kind of a similar thing with COVID where just like the variety of strategies that you, you know, or the, there was not as much variety of strategies of how to deal with COVID in the world than there would be if we hadn't been looking at each other so often. There's this strong international ratcheting effect where everybody feels like there's a certain standard that they have to meet and they all end up converging on very similar approaches. And that's a little disturbing because it means if the world is convergent, if you easily converge on the wrong answer,

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