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Re:AI tools are making the world look weird by psidium on Thursday September 18, 2025 @10:17PM (#45297279)
Yes, your point and other points around the web I’ve seen make his argument about north and south Italy very controversial to say the least. He does have data to back it up, where he presents distance to nearest church as a predictor for how well a population will fare, and south Italy didn’t have the churches that north the Italy had
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Re:AI tools are making the world look weird by cortesoft on Thursday September 18, 2025 @11:17PM (#45297601)
This would only work as evidence if church placement was random. Could be a correlation with a different cause.
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Re:AI tools are making the world look weird by sethammons on Friday September 19, 2025 @03:19AM (#45298827)
All the basketball players are tall. Ergo, if we want to be taller, we should all play basketball.
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Re:AI tools are making the world look weird by psidium on Friday September 19, 2025 @05:49AM (#45299792)
Yes, maybe I was not clear but I’m in doubt of the Italy claim in the book and that’s why I remember it
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