How do you prefer to understand an old idea?
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only reading "state of the art" you miss some ideas altogether or get them mistranslated & mangled
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think about how bad social science is right now - common delusion that our ancestors were dumb, myth of progress
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I think the delusion that they were wise and noble and there's been a decline is even more common 😂.

