.. the edgy-right certainly has an opinion on the vertical distance between the US and Africa. The horizontal story doesnt get as much ink..
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What makes you say that? The core of classical economic theory/history focuses on explaining this (capital accumulation, etc.)
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I am talking more in terms modern political/social commentary, and having a story for why this happened in 16C & not before.
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Oh, OK. There are a couple overlapping factors. 1/1380 was probably the last time Europe (as a whole) was at Malthusian limit
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2/In the same century a number of important technologies were nearing fruition; optics, windmills, crop rotation, 123, weapons
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3/The weapons aided state centralization, making barbarian invasions a non-issue and allow expansion of internal markets&trade
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4/Other techs providing investment opportunities, kept raising the Malthusian ceiling,&brought in new resources, crops, etc
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5/So at Malthusian ceiling wasn't an issue, state collapse not constantly destroying production& capital investments=profits
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Any plausible theory needs to describe a self-propelling circuit. Without prolonged self-reinforcing dynamics, no 'foom'. ...
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... Also worth explicit note: We're already inside the Singularity (initial bifurcation -- or ignition -- is critical point).
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this seems clearly true to me, though I haven't seen many people make an explicit link back to 16th century..
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..it also renders the original tweet a bit academic. The kindling material is less interesting than the telos of the process..
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..Mises and Wiener explicitly touch on the respective econ and tech sides. What else is out there, you, Kevin Kelly, Bostrom?
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possibly because cause is not well-understood? ... Columbian exchange seems plausible but maybe ∃ earlier trends
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also possibly because too remote to use an opinion on this to signal virtue around present-day conflicts ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
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