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JoshuaZ comments on Generalizing from One Trend - Less Wrong Discussion

14 Post author: katydee 18 January 2013 01:21AM

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Comment author: JoshuaZ 19 January 2013 07:40:02PM 0 points [-]

Ironic to see an untestable prediction in the middle of a post about the difficulty of prediction.

In context, the prediction in question is not controversial. It is very hard to see cutting off aid in that context would not have resulted in the immediate starvation of many people in those countries. There simple would not have been enough food.