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Talk:Logarithmic timeline
May be to unify Events and Inventions / Discoveries ?

==Better name for "Outside context problem"==
[[User:MyRedDice]] deleted the "Outside context problem" column with the comment ''rm OCP - Iain Banks is not a scientist - out of place here''.

(contracted; show full) back onto the boiler, which was the previous design. He separated the cold from the hot water. This was later formalized in the Carnot cycle. We can't just dump any old event into the pot, Progress becomes impossible if we live without understanding which factors are productive, which factors are counter-productive. If we attach a label to an event, it can then be viewed retrospectively, re-examined, and debugged in light of an overall process. [[User:Ancheta Wis|Ancheta Wis]] 16:47, 1 Sep 2004 (UTC)
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OK.  I agree that your definition of progress has a valid basis, and I agree that we should take advantage of hindsight. I am just making the points that (a) some people might classify events differently than you (they might not even think that "progress" is a good thing, or they might think that all nonhuman species are worthless except as food, although these points of view are probably rare amongst Wikipedians), and (b) whatever definition we use, it should be stated. --[[User:Heron|Heron]] 17:33, 1 Sep 2004 (UTC)