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Friday Fun Thread for September 8, 2023

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We still have ignorance, poverty, crime and war three centuries later, and in about the same amounts.

It's one thing to make arguments that the enlightenment doesn't deserve any credit for the industrial revolution, but this is straightforwardly false. We have vastly less of all of those things per capita.