Types of progress are relative

# Types of progress are relative If we were to suddenly discover Wakanda (a highly advanced civilization with flying cars, energy shields, etc.) it is intuitive that all the type I seeming progress we have done wouldn’t retroactively become type II. Similarly, if a small child or a remote tribe independently enunciated Newton’s Second Law, that wouldn’t be type I progress despite it being completely new to them. Both of these examples involve an isolated subset of humanity and illustrate the point that ad extremum the definitions of Type I and Type II progress are relative to a specific group’s knowledge horizon. We could go into semantics over what different groups can and should know and perhaps there is a line of inquiry around bringing ‘isolated’ groups into the main body of human knowledge and ability. For the sake of this discussion I’m going to ignore those subtleties and talk about Type I and Type II progress with respect to the common sense ‘main’ body of human knowledge and ability. Related to [[Type I and Type II Progress Publishing V3]] From Discussion w Sam Taylor  [Web URL for this note](http://notes.benjaminreinhardt.com/Types+of+progress+are+relative) [Comment on this note](http://via.hypothes.is/http://notes.benjaminreinhardt.com/Types+of+progress+are+relative)