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Vulture comments on Anthropics doesn't explain why the Cold War stayed Cold - Less Wrong Discussion

6 Post author: KnaveOfAllTrades 20 August 2014 07:23PM

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Comment author: Vulture 26 August 2014 03:54:18PM 1 point [-]

But in our timeline, the anthropic evidence is outweighed by much stronger regular-old evidence that Europe did, in fact, successfully colonize the Americas

Comment author: JQuinton 27 August 2014 04:29:37PM 1 point [-]

...and that's why anthropics doesn't explain why the Cold War stayed cold.

Comment author: Vulture 27 August 2014 08:07:05PM *  1 point [-]

Exactly. That is the point I was trying to make.