Progress in the very rate or nature of progress itself. It’s not inventing the car; it’s inventing the assembly line that makes cars cheaper and faster to invent. It’s the shift from linear, human-driven advancement to exponential, technology-accelerated change. Reaching a point of meta-progress is like finding the cheat code for civilization, where each breakthrough shortens the time until the next one, potentially leading to a vertical line on the graph of history.
*Example: "The 21st century isn't about new inventions; it's about meta-progress. The internet didn't just give us cat videos; it created the global collaboration network that accelerated biotech, which then accelerated AI, which is now designing the next acceleration engine. We're not riding a train; we're strapped to a rocket that's building a faster rocket."*
by Abzugal January 30, 2026
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