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Craig Liddle's avatar

Anyone interested in this topic should read Goliath's Curse (the history and future of societal collapse) by Luke Kemp. Above all he points out 'stability' ain't all it's cracked up to be!

Madison's avatar

Hari Seldon would like a word...

Richie Barnes's avatar

Instant reaction here too.

Tom Capobianco's avatar

Yeah, that's what jumped out at me too...

Marcus's avatar

Exceptional insight. This is grounded in understanding LLM internal processes and measurements. Is there a description of the LLM inner workings allowing this analysis to happen. The implications for research validation based mathematics and teaching based on integrative thinking, architecting the space are profound

Matthew Jameson's avatar

Sounds like Turchin just told Marx "Hold my beer, let me empirically verify historical materialism".

Thomas Heiersted's avatar

Is a «I told you so» in place? Karl Marx was right and a social-democratic welfare state is the best way to organize a society!

Matthew Jameson's avatar

Yeah, I mentioned that in another comment. He's just re-packaging historical materialism with data, which is cool I guess.

Marjorie Dickey's avatar

It makes sense. When we cease to observe ourselves, we create very poor outcomes, and math supports this.