"[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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Since you mention 538, Nate Silver in his book stresses that reductionist methods of predicting outcomes e.g. in the stock market or elections are almost invariably wrong and invite serious skepticism if not outright rejection. So he'd probably agree with you here.
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He's spent basically the last two months screaming that from every rooftop he could find. Human systems are necessarily complex systems and so we should be extremely cautious about trying to reduce that complexity and pretending that in doing so we understand it.
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Isn't that ("terms of surrender") Woods's phrase? It's not in quotes.
Kiitos. Käytämme tätä aikajanasi parantamiseen. KumoaKumoa
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