Not sure why you’re so obsessed with race as a framing dimension, it doesn’t even make my top 5 in significance
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Historical initial conditions effect that’s been eroded to like 20% of its historical strength already from like 1400 AD or so which was likely the peak
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A good point, but I'd say eroded to maybe 90% of it's original.
Maybe a better question: how could we answer this? What experiment?
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Global trade, English language penetration, global food/music/movies spread, cosmopolitan cities... lots of proxy metrics, but it’s a rhetorical argument anyway. You think it is a big deal, I think it’s a minor overstated thing. We each proceed on assumptions.
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I mean go model whatever you like... there are no physics-like fundamentals here
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So what are your 5 dimensions that drive society, above race/genes?
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To be clear, I'm being descriptive, not prescriptive (in fact I'm a mongrel, so I've got SITG)
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Gently, I do wonder if you have a blindspot here. Maybe I do as well? Someone has a blindspot. Cheers 🙂

