My view is similar to Robin Brandt’s, but I would say that technological progress has caused the appearance of moral progress, because we responded to past technological progress by changing our moral perceptions in roughly the same direction. But different kinds of future technological progress may cause further changes in orthogonal or even opposite directions. It’s easy to imagine for example that slavery may make a comeback if a perfect mind control technology was invented.
My view is similar to Robin Brandt’s, but I would say that technological progress has caused the appearance of moral progress, because we responded to past technological progress by changing our moral perceptions in roughly the same direction. But different kinds of future technological progress may cause further changes in orthogonal or even opposite directions. It’s easy to imagine for example that slavery may make a comeback if a perfect mind control technology was invented.