Published on May 19, 2025 1:39 PM GMT Movement alone isn’t progress, and there are dangers in ignoring dimensions and directions of acceleration. Note: This is cross-posted from my Substack on Exploring Cooperation, responding to a recent post by Helen Toner, and I think that post, and hopefully my long-form reply, will be of interest to the progress studies community. Progress, Acceleration, and the Fragility of Civilizational Defaults In debates about progress, societies seem trapped be...
