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1. “Yeah, sure. I write about the history of technology and the philosophy of progress. So the roots of progress looks at how did over the last couple of hundred years, how did we create this amazing world around us and this really wonderful, incredible standard of living that we now enjoy that is so much, but life is just so much better in so many ways, in almost every way that it was about 200, 250 years ago or so, really even then if you compare to 100 years ago or 50 years ago, things just keep getting better. And this phenomenon is unprecedented in history for thousands, tens of thousands of years, as far as back as you want to go really, there was very little improvement in the standard living, the way people lived in life expectancy, in health, in our ability to get around. I mean, for so many”

   2020-08-25 · Dwarkesh Podcast · Jason Crawford - The Roots of Progress · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source