gwern comments on Do Earths with slower economic growth have a better chance at FAI? - Less Wrong

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Comment author: gwern 14 June 2013 11:11:57PM 1 point [-]

In particular, it was during the Dark Ages that Europeans developed the stirrup, the horse collar and the moldboard plow.

Sure about that? http://richardcarrier.blogspot.com/2007/07/experimental-history.html http://richardcarrier.blogspot.com/2007/08/lynn-white-on-horse-stuff.html