Nornagest comments on On saving the world - Less Wrong

101 Post author: So8res 30 January 2014 08:00PM

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Comment author: gwern 31 January 2014 10:51:58PM 1 point [-]

I'm unaware of any significant disputes over industrialization in early US politics.

Hamilton vs Jefferson comes to mind.

Comment author: Nornagest 31 January 2014 10:59:03PM 0 points [-]

I thought that didn't happen until a decade or so later?

Comment author: blacktrance 31 January 2014 11:04:26PM 1 point [-]

That doesn't qualify as "early"?

Comment author: Nornagest 31 January 2014 11:10:02PM 1 point [-]

Should have been more precise. I was talking about the roughly 10-year period between independence and the acceptance of the US Constitution. The 1790s are early in the nation's history, all right, but that was a period of very rapid evolution in US politics.