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if human civilization really did survive a few decades of quantum suicide during the cold war, shouldn't we be seeing regression to the mean by now instead of, you know, the opposite
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What is mean in this case? Averages between some aspects of society in different parts of the world? Which? Or in one place? Maybe one aspect?
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ok ok, so, I don't know what I'd measure if I really wanted to show that we're regressing back to some mean, because, yes, what mean?
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There's the folk belief that the world went off the rails some time this decade, if one wanted to quantify that, one would have to ask people (of various ages, backgrounds, etc) how weird year XXXX was and go from there
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