Douglas_Knight comments on This Failing Earth - Less Wrong

19 Post author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 24 May 2009 04:09PM

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Comment author: Douglas_Knight 25 May 2009 10:19:57PM 2 points [-]

The blog post makes it sound like it cherry-picks 1991 "the last year of government" as representative of government, when it's the last year of war, and thus the conditions one would expect to be worst. Actually, the article acknowledges that rebellion broke out in 1988, but it still averages 1985-1990 as five years of government.