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Arenamontanus comments on No peace in our time? - Less Wrong Discussion

9 Post author: Stuart_Armstrong 26 May 2015 02:41PM

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Comment author: Arenamontanus 26 May 2015 03:23:03PM 2 points [-]

Well, 70 years of 1/37 risk still has 13% chance of showing zero wars. Could happen. (Since we are talking about smaller ones rather than WWIII anthropics doesn't distort the probabilities measurably.)

One could buy a Pinker improvement scenario and yet be concerned about a heavy tail due to nuclear or bio warfare of existential importance. The median cases might decline and the rate of events go down, yet the tail get nastier.

Comment author: Stuart_Armstrong 26 May 2015 04:04:34PM 3 points [-]

Could happen.

Indeed. This is not a proof of the "long peace", just showing the paper doesn't disprove it.