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I think the “how do I figure out what the heck really happened” part is something most historians care about quite deeply and is an important part of historiogr

by rpeden 6y ago

I think the “how do I figure out what the heck really happened” part is something most historians care about quite deeply and is an important part of historiography. Looking at the veracity of previously recorded history is part of historiography as well. I think skepticism of recorded history is healthy in general. Historians would probably agree.

blaser-waffle 6y ago
The depictions of Nero and Caligula come to mind. Dudes might have been crazy, but there were few contemporary resources available to compare. See also: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nero#Historiography https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nero#Historiography What scares me is that any large org -- facebook, instagram, AP News, Google, the BBC -- could just delete all of their archives, or get some sort of nasty randsomware that just deletes everything or rewrites everything. And that's just an automated thing; the 1984-syle deliberate rewrites could be done via an automated script or some next-gen GPT-3 thing.