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by hackandthink 1107 days ago
Nassim Taleb's critique of the "long peace":

"We investigate the theses of “long peace” and drop in violence and find that these are statistically invalid and resulting from flawed and naive methodologies, ..."

https://www.fooledbyrandomness.com/pinker.pdf

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