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Don’t fall for survivorship bias though. The graveyard is full of progressive societies that died.


It's also full of conservative ones that died.

There is no survivorship bias here without an argument that conservative societies do not die.

My argument that the progressives are usually right is not empirical, but rational.

disclaimer: I should note that with “conservative” and “progressive”, I do not mean the U.S.A. identity politics terminology, that has little to do with either conservation or progression, but the simple definition of aiming for change or for inertia.




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