For decades I've wished history was taught at every level with a machinistic viewpoint, though I hadn't a word for it. Due to perceived time-scarcity, intellectual insecurity, and laziness I probably won't be reading any of the books. But I will read your updates/digests slowly and repeatedly. Longer and/or more frequent updates wouldn't bother me at all! I think you should write a "History of the World" book.
I was thinking of something like this. An open-source collaborative sloptraptions book. Possibly on Roam with a ChatGPT plugin. Bit of a pain to organize though. We’ll see how much energy there is at the mid-year hangout
A mechanistic (or machinistic?) model of history is something that feels intuitive to my mind, so much so that I suspect that it is a kind of cognitive bias.
Love this. Growing up I had a timeline of world history hung on my wall that illustrated history in this coterminous way. My dad called it “thinking synchronoptically”.
For decades I've wished history was taught at every level with a machinistic viewpoint, though I hadn't a word for it. Due to perceived time-scarcity, intellectual insecurity, and laziness I probably won't be reading any of the books. But I will read your updates/digests slowly and repeatedly. Longer and/or more frequent updates wouldn't bother me at all! I think you should write a "History of the World" book.
I was thinking of something like this. An open-source collaborative sloptraptions book. Possibly on Roam with a ChatGPT plugin. Bit of a pain to organize though. We’ll see how much energy there is at the mid-year hangout
If someone wanted to get a sloptraption version of this going, ChatGPT says maybe something like this would work: https://chatgpt.com/share/68681cae-b484-8003-825a-e61b5677d0b7
A mechanistic (or machinistic?) model of history is something that feels intuitive to my mind, so much so that I suspect that it is a kind of cognitive bias.
Love this. Growing up I had a timeline of world history hung on my wall that illustrated history in this coterminous way. My dad called it “thinking synchronoptically”.