history is the way we tell stories about our past. the facts themselves have no inherent structure, the stories do.
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addressed by another reply herehttps://twitter.com/danlistensto/status/1040716918804672512 …
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in terms of utility for human societies, well, I don't know how to connect the dots exactly. I have a preference to have a culture with fewer bad ideas in it though, and I think linear political history is a bad idea.
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Well, it kind of certainly doesn't look like an accurate idea. I'm just not convinced that alternatives are necessarily more accurate, and more importantly, that there is enough info to make such judgement.
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A lot of cycles in nature involve, yakno, dying of biological systems. Humans tend to be rather not fond of that.
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