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Vaniver comments on The Onrushing Wave - Less Wrong Discussion

-1 Post author: Douglas_Reay 18 January 2014 01:10PM

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Comment author: Vaniver 18 January 2014 07:25:24PM -2 points [-]

I feel that this model of socioeconomics creates a large number of unexplainable (under the model) anomalies

It seems to me that those things are pretty quickly explained if you throw race and IQ in to your model, which aren't likely to change in the near future, and tech is still the thing likely to change significantly in the near future.

Comment author: DanArmak 19 January 2014 09:45:51PM *  0 points [-]

Immigration can make countries much less homogenous in terms of race, to the point where you can't predict much about a country's or area's population. (I'm talking on a global scale, not about immigration to the US.)