Okay last share for now from Tainter. Perfect coup de grace against "decadent values" bullshit theories of change.
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That implies you should just drop morality? How does that sit with 2 decades ago you *could not* be gay and president?
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@david_kenneth_d So long as you adopt pluralism as basic axiom, not an issue. Gay rights w/o world war = great achievement.
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Just noticed: you misread that line. Your line is a sort of weak contrapositive of Tainter's line :) Freudian slip I think.
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not valuable...falsifiable and a meaningful basis for consensus without coercion
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main point there is to eliminate unfalsifiable subjective testimonials that turn historiography into he-said-she-said solipsism.
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History may not be as rigorous as math or chemistry, but it isn't as entirely arbitrary as religious claims to univ-value-authority
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that's why I am accusing you of strawmanning. There's spectrum between that and Pharaoh killing me because some wolf god said to.
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Perhaps more general than experimental science, but not "differen." Arguing from evidence, not values and mythology, still basic.

