History is all data which, when you change the narrative, doesn't go away (mashup: Philip K. Dick and Paul Graham defns of reality/history)
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Without the narrative there is no ‘data’.
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totally disagree. Tons of "data" exists whether or not you tell a story about it. Great Wall as "data" even if humans vanish.
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Berkeley might say it sounds like a Great Wall narrative.
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fwiw I like and respect you Venkat. Just parrying. Exposition on empiricist immaterialism might be beyond the scope of 140 anyway.

