1/ *cracks knuckles* So... Once you know one field well, you get comfortable with (or at least aware of) how many people are very good at presenting smart-sounding and compelling evidence in favor of [anything].https://twitter.com/eigenrobot/status/1170476053002776576 …
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@eigenrobot: this is my way of saying I suspect I would enjoy doing hallucinogens with you, you wonderful robot.)Show this threadThanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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Your every perception of the world is a hallucination conditioned on some skimpy observations. Often it works, occasionally not. Why should the log odds on "History"'s correctness be more than a couple nats worse?
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This thread reminds me of this quote, “Histories make men wise; poets, witty; the mathematics, subtle; natural philosophy, deep; moral, grave; logic and rhetoric, able to contend.”. ― Francis Bacon 1/2
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I agree. Hard not to read whatever we want into the past and it's tempting to focus on now. But one issue that gives me pause is scientific racism/sexism. It's hard to address why current scientific racism/sexism isn't just science-as-usual without pointing to phrenology etc. 2/2
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Based on the historians I know, the questions you're asking here - particularly around projection - are exactly the sort that haunt them and keep them up at night.
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aw for a second I thought you were introducing the world to a bot of your own making
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