YES! I've thought about this How much of your personality is comprised of your little aphorisms and trivia? https://t.co/3u4JKEcZI9
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trivia are not trivial either, that little set of pithy stories and metaphors is how you model the world
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history class curricula are important because all policy is decided by people who have room for like max three past events to use as metaphors for evaluating events beyond our borders
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see the truth in this tweet and then generalize to everything else
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"why dont Americans agree" they have room for like four political reference points and now there are two or more entirely separate sets of reference points
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I bet a political Turing Test is isomorphic to knowing what the three most important historical events to that person are
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Replying to @eigenrobot
fun question. istm none of it was all that important compared to the invention of agriculture. everything from that point on seems kinda inevitable and same-y. more symbolic than causal.
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powerful reference set
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Replying to @samsaragon @willdoingthings
The Oxygen Catastrophe and its consequences ha
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