Promoted to the frontpage. While this mentions party politics in an extremely faint way, I would be surprised if this turns into a political discussion, though if it does I will be more careful in the future.
I actually think that history is a particularly underexplored topic for the rationality community, and I am excited to see more writing about history on here. My personal interest lies in the history of the industrial and scientific revolutions, which seem to possibly be the most important things that have happened in all of human history, and with the way they happened pointing at a lot of important facts about the art of rationality – but I haven’t really seen that much concretely historical writing on here.
Promoted to the frontpage. While this mentions party politics in an extremely faint way, I would be surprised if this turns into a political discussion, though if it does I will be more careful in the future.
I actually think that history is a particularly underexplored topic for the rationality community, and I am excited to see more writing about history on here. My personal interest lies in the history of the industrial and scientific revolutions, which seem to possibly be the most important things that have happened in all of human history, and with the way they happened pointing at a lot of important facts about the art of rationality – but I haven’t really seen that much concretely historical writing on here.
Other references I have found really useful when trying to understand history is the Handbook of Cliometrics (econometric history) and probably my favorite social-science paper in existence: “Why isn’t the whole world developed? Lessons from the cotton mills.”