Pretty sure I remember reading Taleb on this, stating that homicides follow a normal distribution and he accepts Pinker’s argument there. He de-couples this from the other kinds of violence, saying that the narrative stretches too wide—specifically warfare should be analyzed separately, since that follows Pareto distributions.
Pretty sure I remember reading Taleb on this, stating that homicides follow a normal distribution and he accepts Pinker’s argument there. He de-couples this from the other kinds of violence, saying that the narrative stretches too wide—specifically warfare should be analyzed separately, since that follows Pareto distributions.
That’s fine.