tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5880610.post3937826993601365390..comments2024-01-13T18:57:18.243-05:00Comments on Information Processing: I call this progressSteve Hsuhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02428333897272913660noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5880610.post-81993236239600193192015-07-21T07:36:48.933-04:002015-07-21T07:36:48.933-04:00Indeed, all three of the lines on that graph look ...Indeed, all three of the lines on that graph look a bit goofy. But not as goofy as <a href="http://andrewgelman.com/2014/09/09/suspicious-graph-purporting-show-percentage-slaves-serfs-world/" rel="nofollow">this monstrosity promulgated by rich guy Peter Diamandis. It's amazing how credulous people can be about this sort of thing, perhaps because people are trained to read graphs as rough Andrew Gelmannoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5880610.post-90967584796978221292015-07-07T07:31:40.660-04:002015-07-07T07:31:40.660-04:00What the graph actually shows is the rise and fall...What the graph actually shows is the rise and fall of solid empirical data. 1820 is mostly guesswork, and 2000 more so than 1970.5371noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5880610.post-26409271672190475862015-07-06T21:56:12.362-04:002015-07-06T21:56:12.362-04:00Forgot the punch line. So money is speech.Forgot the punch line. So money is speech.dxie48noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5880610.post-43666905832307189192015-07-06T21:51:21.320-04:002015-07-06T21:51:21.320-04:00The original source of the graph http://ourworldin...The original source of the graph http://ourworldindata.org/data/growth-and-distribution-of-prosperity/inequality-between-world-citizens/<br /><br />Plausible modelling of the process. 'Short Message correspondence' could be the analog of the goods/services/money transactions between humans. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2973857/<br /><br /><i>Interacting human activities dxie48noreply@blogger.com