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Yes? We don't have to blindly and constantly be making progress on everything at all cost. Look around you, look at what all this progress did to the world we live in.

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Then our descendants will talk about how they were held back by our greedy ancestors who just wanted to be able to look at the night sky and see only natural stars, and they'll be right.

Also let me guess, you have high speed internet avaiable at your house so starlink isn't your only high-speed option right now?

I resent my recent ancestors for tearing up all our cities in favour of motorways, and grateful only that it wasn’t worse. They thought that was progress though, and that cars were the only way to move into the future.

I’m not against advancing in this area, but there is nuance. Progress can be short sighted.

Or they will talk about how we rushed too fast to clutter space and now can’t escape earth orbit because of a cloud of dangerous shrapnel and are going to go extinct without being multi planetary.

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