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Edited by jimrandomh, Yoav Ravid last updated 9th Feb 2021

History: "Why should I remember the Wright Brothers’ first flight? I was not there. But as a rationalist, could I dare to not remember, when the event actually happened? Is there so much difference between seeing an event through your eyes—which is actually a causal chain involving reflected photons, not a direct connection—and seeing an event through a history book? Photons and history books both descend by causal chains from the event itself." - Eliezer Yudkowsky, Making History Available.

Related Pages: History of Rationality, History of Less Wrong

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