[extropy-chat] War Is Easy To Explain - Peace is Not

[Damien Broderick]

At 10:44 PM 3/13/2007 -0700, Eliezer wrote:

>Damien, I don't have a reference ready to hand, but IIRC the net chance
>of dying of violence in a hunter-gatherer society is pretty damned high.
>   Their warlikeness has not been exaggerated.

That was half my point. The other half was that the equivalent now is 
not nations but ferocious pockets of underclasses.