"[Peter Turchin's theories] have won him comparisons to other authors of “megahistories,” such as Jared Diamond and Yuval Noah Harari." - From The Atlantic 'Megahistories' - Definition: Pop historical works that sound great unless you actually know enough history to assess them.
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...consequently, they spend a lot of time stressing uncertainty. Turchin doesn't stress uncertainty *at all* in his comments. He stresses confidence, arguing that the huge date-brackets on his study give him the kind of high confidence to make hard future predictions.
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And he openly compares himself to the historical-mathematicians from the Foundation books. What I am saying is - I *know* the data from some of these periods and, if you'll pardon the analogy - the polls are garbage.
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Along these lines: the use of "proxies" in modelling ancient economic history always leaves me quite uneasy. I'll admit I haven't dug enough into how the models are built, so they might be more robust than that, but...
Kiitos. Käytämme tätä aikajanasi parantamiseen. KumoaKumoa
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