Jordan's law—the principle of minimum expected change in historical location—suggests that the most likely place to find a population 2,000 years later is where they were 2,000 years ago, due to peasant populations' lack of mobility and geographic inertia.
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Nassim Nicholas TalebEvidence Quote
“most likely Place someone's going to be after 2,000 years is where the person was years ago there's some kind of inertia uh peasants first of all don't travel and the Jans were peasants”
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The Merge: Ep. 03 | The past is not gone; it lives on in the future— Maroun Semaan Faculty of Engineering and ArchitectCreated: 8/11/2026, 7:27:10 AM
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