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by leandrod 5419 days ago
Jules Verne’s _The Floating Island_ foresaw ðis. Its conclusion? Inhabitants could not agree on much, so the island got torn apart.
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This is called generalization from fictional evidence. http://lesswrong.com/lw/k9/the_logical_fallacy_of_generaliza...