sociology should just admit that it has more degrees of freedom than data points right now and spend the next 10000 years gathering detailed case studies
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historians should give up on studying the past and focus on keeping detailed records for future historians who will finally have sufficient data to actually learn something
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Comprehensive data gathering would tend to serve a totalitarian state. Maybe as a compromise position we make sure we have perfect records only of the state functionaries.
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well maybe collection, storage, and analytic costs are large and substantial probably not worth it without a state buyer
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This raises a fascinating question : just how much could a future historian learn about our society from the databases which have been accumulated. Imagine future Edward Gibbon trying to explain the Fall of America but his primary source is a dump of Facebook's database.
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if you were to look at a FAANG data warehouse I think you would find it less useful for this purpose than you like 
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Yeah I know. I really pity future Gibbon.
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