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stinkbeetle
24 days ago
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False claims in a widely-cited paper
That would be strange and misguided because I didn't talk about a consensus, I was talking about a mechanism for consensus. And consensus has existed many times on many issues now, and then.
hunter-gatherer
24 days ago
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Right, the mechanism you mentioned, reason, never existed. That's how I read their comment anyways.
stinkbeetle
23 days ago
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Yes I have noticed people get extremely emotional and upset at the suggestion that not everything in society may be monotonically improving.
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