logicp_writings/Book/What_do_we_know_of_progress.md

What do we know?

It's easy enough to notice an improvement across time, reflect back on how one's record of actions might have modestly corresponded, if even just in spirit, and conclude that the entire set of all possibly similar behaviours were masterfully orchestrated in sequence. The Gods, of whatever type, granted this wonder, all predicated on your inherent intellect and acute outlook, and now it's all the more clear that you will never be anything but correct from here on out!

But how do we measure progress:

• Aggregate poverty
• Median range of disparity
• Children surviving
• Cocnentration of semi-conductors per square km

Yes, we can come up with many measures, but we must understand how it interfaces with your body to even begin to think about how you might employ such a metric to evaluate a conception of morality for any substantive effect of any sort. You have only your own perception with which to form your every conception, and the moment we lose sight of that is the moment we lose all hope of understanding our thoughts and opinions.

So let's perform a factor analysis:

All of these have to do with survival. You can argue that it's about actualizing, but taht would be semantics. No, survival does just great - and it allows us to translate all scenarios into one which confers an analysis of procurement of survival resources by humans, at a range and scope which itself must be elaborated whenever in dispute.