iii) the catholic church died at the council of Trent iv) tyranny is much more common in history than I had usually considered, and much more transient v) important trends often play out tectonically, and are mostly not visible in a year or decade of a person's life
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vi) ideas matter and everyone seems to have forgotten this today and thats some weak shit vii) the tenor and temperament of individuals and collectives matter and people seem to not believe this today viii) neither (vi) nor (vii) are easily quantified which maybe explains a lot
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ix) some things I would like seeing: a. a rereading of history after we get a functioning science of psychology b. a rereading of history by digging up and dating every corpse in the world and sequencing them and tracking mental phenotype flows c. (b) but with geneology
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x) sciences and technology people are not ready for a. genomics b. a functioning psychology c. ML systems taking advantage of (b)
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xi) looping back to (vi) no one is coming up with new ideas its just rewarmed b-tier ideologies or slovenly unrationalized materialism this is a failure of the ideological class no one is even pitching Good bad ideas
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Replying to @eigenrobot
Where are you looking? What subjects? And may I introduce you to phlogiston apologia? https://www.springer.com/gp/book/9789400739314#aboutBook …
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hahahahahaha yeah I gu ws the flat earther folks are resurgent too
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Ok but u should read the summary. The PhLoGiStOn iS bAd IrRaTiOnAL sCiEnCe take is fake history and bad philosophy of science
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Turns out Lavoisier was just charismatic and ur all falling for it in the 21st century
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Oh that I definitely buy without reading further Huh! Seen a similar take re: Copernicus
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Also Aristotle's physics. This one is a pretty easy skimhttps://arxiv.org/abs/1312.4057
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