Vaniver comments on Counterfactual resiliency test for non-causal models - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Vaniver 22 September 2012 03:41:49AM 0 points [-]

I think Robin's info about GDP growth throughout history is decent, too.

Comment author: V_V 16 October 2013 04:21:18PM *  0 points [-]

GDP estimates of premodern societies are highly speculative, and anyway the GDP of a premodern society was probably not a good measure of the magnitude of its economic activity.