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Murtaza Hussain
@mazmhussain
It’s really crazy how premodern historians used to just completely make things up. Even if the exaggerations and fibs are not as extreme I have a private suspicion that most of recorded history is essentially false.
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horsefacts
@horsefacts.eth
Big time. Have you read David Deutsch or Karl Popper? Reframing history and science as a long process of error correction to wrong but useful models makes the most sense to me. Everyone’s always been wrong and they still are.
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Nick T
@nt
what’s the best place to grok this perspective?
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horsefacts
@horsefacts.eth
This and "The Beginning of Infinity"
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