NancyLebovitz comments on Anthropic signature: strange anti-correlations - Less Wrong

51 Post author: Stuart_Armstrong 21 October 2014 04:59PM

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Comment author: NancyLebovitz 22 October 2014 04:31:13PM 1 point [-]

You should probably include war as another resource-depleting event which amplifies the effects of an epidemic.

Comment author: Nornagest 24 October 2014 10:12:30PM 1 point [-]

War also has a way of throwing lots of stressed people together under unsanitary conditions. Soldiers, refugees, people in bomb shelters, etc.

The canonical example of a war coinciding with a pandemic is probably the 1918 Spanish Flu, which killed more people than WWI did.