On 12/11/06, Ben Goertzel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
The exponential growth pattern [of death toll in wars] holds regardless of whether you normalize by global population size or not...
This is one of those memes whose persistence depends entirely on our psychology and not at all on correspondence to material reality - for some data points, take a look at the death tolls associated with the fall of the Roman empire and the Mongol invasions. ----- This list is sponsored by AGIRI: http://www.agiri.org/email To unsubscribe or change your options, please go to: http://v2.listbox.com/member/?list_id=11983
