Stabilizer comments on Minor, perspective changing facts - Less Wrong

38 Post author: Stuart_Armstrong 22 April 2013 07:01PM

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Comment author: Stabilizer 24 April 2013 09:05:02PM *  4 points [-]

I was thinking more in terms of human development. Nations with large populations and high HDI are important because they support a very large number of people with a very high standard of life.

China has a HDI-rank of 101. Japan has a HDI-rank of 10.

Comment author: DaFranker 25 April 2013 01:45:23PM 2 points [-]

Yeah, that and China's low per-capita everything. I also doubt China has a bigger service sector than its industry and farming.

I was correcting my erroneous assumption based on other correlates of developed nations (space missions, nuclear power, high-tech, lots of science, etc.).