JoshuaZ comments on David Deutsch on How To Think About The Future - Less Wrong

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Comment author: JoshuaZ 12 April 2011 01:45:47AM 4 points [-]

Ok. So all my World War 2 examples have now decisively been shown to be wrong. I don't have any other modern examples to give that go in this direction. All other modern examples go pretty strongly in the other direction. I withdraw the claim wholesale and am updating to accept the claim for post-enlightenment human societies.