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Comment by c048

1 day ago

Everything we know and see has proven that progress is exponential.

Your statement that progress or intelligence is binary has no basis outside of intentional and ignorant pessimism.

And if you extrapolate the growth of infants they should weigh billions of pounds by the time they’re in grade school, and yet they don’t.

In what basis do you presume our progress will continue exponentially?

I’ll take pessimism over wishful thinking.

Tell that to the Romans or the Chinese or the Ottomans or the Egyptians or the Greeks or the...