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>History is the record of top players completing good quests. I wonder at the extent to which you have to be insulated from regular intellectual life to write
by foldr 3y ago
>History is the record of top players completing good quests.
I wonder at the extent to which you have to be insulated from regular intellectual life to write something as silly as this.
- pjc50 3y agoMan has seriously underestimated how much of history is the completion of bad quests by people for whom the win condition is them sitting atop a pile of human skills. Viewing it as "progress" like this is not so much Whig History as Videogame Whig History. Now thinking of the very opposite set of life advice from https://twitter.com/kamilkazani/ https://twitter.com/kamilkazani/ on how to survive in the extremely Hobbesian Russian environment.
- foldr 3y agoNot to mention the influence of random and natural events (e.g. volcanic eruptions, the end of the ice age...).
- mattbuilds 3y agoI mean he’s a mouthpiece for Thiel, not really that surprising. His livelihood depends on viewing the world in a very specific way.