I think it could be appropriate at this point to explain my better world paradox. Hopefully someone can tell me why it is wrong.
If all human experiences were to be put on a scale of 1-10
1 is the worst possible experience
5 is neutral
10 is the best possible experience
After a monumental effort we collectively improve all human experiences so that:
5 is the new worst
10 is the new neutral
15 is the new best
For the remaining humans who lived in the 1-10 period there would be a felt improvement. Until they all died out.
From then on, every new generation are still living at a neutral flat line with -5/+5 possibility.
Comparative to the min/max scale, the 1 worst experience and the 5 worst experience feel exactly the same. Likewise the extra 5 points from 10 to 15 mean nothing if both are not experienced by the same individual.
The possibility that we have continuously improved human existence over hundreds of thousands of years to absolutely no long term effect.
Maximum suffering still feels the same. Maximum joy likewise. Baseline neutral is always neutral.
I think it is impossible to make any long term improvements. Human experience has never changed. When you have been as low as is possible and as high as is possible you've felt the same as any caveman ever did. The same as any future, cosmos-conquering human ever will.
