MichaelBishop comments on Why safety is not safe - Less Wrong

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Comment author: MichaelBishop 14 June 2009 07:40:54PM *  0 points [-]

I agree that groups/societies get stuck for fairly long periods of time and that independence and competition between groups/societies is often beneficial. But I think stagnation is unlikely unless we end up with a totalitarian world government. See Bryan Caplan's essay