{"id":3154,"date":"2011-05-14T03:08:14","date_gmt":"2011-05-14T10:08:14","guid":{"rendered":"tag:google.com,2005:reader\/item\/7b298324a7c8a7d7"},"modified":"2011-05-16T12:03:28","modified_gmt":"2011-05-16T19:03:28","slug":"the-limits-of-progress-would-you-buy-a-replica-of-say-a-van-gogh-painting-that-is-made-with-better-material-and-uses-improved-techniques-would-you-value-it-more","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/2011\/05\/the-limits-of-progress-would-you-buy-a-replica-of-say-a-van-gogh-painting-that-is-made-with-better-material-and-uses-improved-techniques-would-you-value-it-more\/","title":{"rendered":"The limits of &quot;PROGRESS&quot;: &#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The limits of &#8220;PROGRESS&#8221;: Would you buy a replica of, say, a Van Gogh painting that is made with &#8220;better&#8221; material and uses &#8220;improved&#8221; techniques? Would you value it more than the original?<br \/>This helps understand the abhorrent aspect of much of economic &#8220;growth&#8221;, neophilia, genetic modification, &#8220;chemical enhancements&#8221; of life, &#8220;singularity&#8221; and other naive rationalistic concepts.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The limits of &#8220;PROGRESS&#8221;: Would you buy a replica of, say, a Van Gogh painting that is made with &#8220;better&#8221; material and uses &#8220;improved&#8221; techniques? Would you value it more than the original?This helps understand the abhorrent aspect of much of economic &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":21,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3154","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-feeds"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3154","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/21"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3154"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3154\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3157,"href":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3154\/revisions\/3157"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3154"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3154"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3154"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}