Progress demands an approach that balances technological advancement with human-centric values. A manifesto¹ by Christoforus Yoga Haryanto outlines principles for progress in the post-AI era.

Guiding principles (Let me emphasize 1,2,3,5):

1. Progress is non-linear but cumulative, with paradigm shifts and iterative processes.
2. A deep understanding of purpose, mechanisms, and historical context is essential.
3. Multi-stakeholder collaboration at disciplinary intersections is necessary for progress.
4. Methodological system-level experimentation and prototyping drive innovation.
5. Conflicting progress should be embraced as a tool for refinement and validation.
6. The post-AI era requires a holistic, interdisciplinary approach to progress.
7. AI can accelerate advances in multiple industries but has fundamental limitations.
8. Human creativity, consciousness, and abductive reasoning are necessary in the AI era.
9. Progress must balance technological advancement with human-centric values.
10. True progress emerges from a symbiosis of AI capabilities and human ingenuity.

How to Ensure Progress?

1. Embracing non-linear yet cumulative advancements, with emphasis on paradigm shifts and iterative processes mindset
2. Understanding progress by its purpose and underlying mechanisms with a grasp of the historical context and philosophical underpinnings. However, progress can only be
   ensured by working beyond the current understanding.
3. Collaborating with multi-stakeholders, as progress often occurs at disciplinary intersection.
4. Experimenting and prototyping at the system level with proper methodologies for repeatability, considering interconnections between societal and environmental elements. Ensure that these experiments are guided by clear end-to-end expectations of
   desired behaviors, with the system designed to meet these specific objectives.
5. Recognizing that conflicting progress is not a problem, but rather a valuable tool for
   refinement. Embrace these conflicts as a competitive approach to confirm and strengthen the progress itself

The study of progress is making progress… Soon more.

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(1) Christoforus Yoga Haryanto, ‘Progress: A Post-AI Manifesto’ (arXiv, 25 August 2024), https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2408.13775.

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