Rapid, sustained progress across many generations has happened once in human history, beginning around the scientific revolution, and what started it was a tradition of criticism replacing reliance on authority, not the invention of experiment.

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  Progress that is both rapid enough to be noticed and stable enough to continue over many generations has been achieved only once in the history of our species.

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  The Enlightenment. The beginning of, a way of pursuing knowledge with a tradition of criticism and seeking good explanations, instead of reliance on authority.

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