Nobody, stated explicitly, but the word “progress” links a lot of those dimensions together, so it’s easy to think, functionally, as if they are. Wiggins and all that.
There’s a difference between thinking as if dimensions are linked together, and thinking as if there’s “some cosmic niceness built into the universe that makes everything improve monotonically along every dimension at once” (emphasis mine). Switching between attacking moderate and extreme versions of the same claim is classic logical rudeness.
Nobody, stated explicitly, but the word “progress” links a lot of those dimensions together, so it’s easy to think, functionally, as if they are. Wiggins and all that.
There’s a difference between thinking as if dimensions are linked together, and thinking as if there’s “some cosmic niceness built into the universe that makes everything improve monotonically along every dimension at once” (emphasis mine). Switching between attacking moderate and extreme versions of the same claim is classic logical rudeness.