But we should be able to do much better than that by looking at many more experiences in much more detail, using a much bigger memory that can find many more patterns across much more of the relevant human experience. Imagine that Sachs’s Millennium Villages project had known the sequence of all previous successful moves out of subsistence agriculture, rather than relying only on guesswork or deduction.
但如果能看到更多更细致的经验、使用更大的记忆找出更多的跨越更多相关人类经验的模式，那么我们应该能够做得更好。试想，如果萨克斯的千年村计划事先了解过关于走出生计农业的所有获得成功的历史案例，而不是只根据猜测和演绎会怎样。了解与某个特定国家现在的情形关系最紧的产业发展路径和死路难道会没用吗？