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by rwallace 2942 days ago
Is it?

The quoted proposition is really two rolled into one:

1. Progress is inevitable.

2. Conditional on progress occurring at all, it has to take something reasonably close to a specific path.

The first view seems to be quite widely held. I think it's false, but the second one is true. Is the version being critiqued here, the first one, second, or both?