Studying history broadly, w/o connecting with enough living people who come from those histories, is a serious strategic error in humanities
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Think of each of the 7 billion people on this planet as a living, reduced-to-practice history book that is a better study than any text
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Just as ground truth in physics lives in experimentation, ground truth in the humanities lives in... humans. This seems to surprise many.
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yeah, the competition is not biz books, but risk and consequences of discovery also far higher.
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agreed but the problem of getting representative samples of humans is much harder than it is for science, normally
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