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Same subjectSame subjectSame subjectSame subjectSame subjectSame subjectSame subjectSame subject Read this korrent: History has no predetermined path: its course turns on unpredictable contingencies rather than on deep currents that would have produced the same outcome anyway. History has no predetermined path:its course turns on unpredictablecontingencies rather than on deepcurrents that would have producedthe same outcome anyway. BD Bret Devereaux — holds since 2022-08-26 — tap for who they are Same subject: History teaches complexity rather than prediction: it can explain the mechanisms of change without licensing any claim about what comes next. — tap to centre the map on it History teaches complexityrather than prediction: it canexplain the mechanisms ofchange without licensing any… AP Ada Palmer — holds since 2017-01-04 — tap for who they are Same subject: The hardest thing for a future historian to recover will be how little the world outside understood, because whatever happened looks inevitable in retrospect. — tap to centre the map on it The hardest thing for a futurehistorian to recover will behow little the world outsideunderstood, because whatever… DA Dario Amodei — holds since 2026-02-13 — tap for who they are Same subject: History does not repeat itself, but patterns of human behaviour do, and what always follows an economic crisis is political upheaval. — tap to centre the map on it History does not repeatitself, but patterns of humanbehaviour do, and what alwaysfollows an economic crisis is… JH James Holland — holds since 2025-05-24 — tap for who they are Same subject: Europe's crises were predictable and overdetermined, not the unforeseeable shocks that the 'return of history' story makes of them. — tap to centre the map on it Europe's crises werepredictable andoverdetermined, not theunforeseeable shocks that the… AT Adam Tooze — holds since 2026-06-21 — tap for who they are Same subject: Market history teaches why things behave as they do, never what happens next, because the details never repeat. — tap to centre the map on it Market history teaches whythings behave as they do,never what happens next,because the details never… MH Morgan Housel — holds since 2024-04-07 — tap for who they are Same subject: The Industrial Revolution was not inevitable: it needed a set of very specific preconditions that only Britain, at that moment, actually had. — tap to centre the map on it The Industrial Revolution wasnot inevitable: it needed aset of very specificpreconditions that only… BD Bret Devereaux — holds since 2022-08-26 — tap for who they are Same subject: History has a reproducibility problem worse than science’s replication crisis, because hardly anyone ever goes back to the sources to check what a historian claimed they say. — tap to centre the map on it History has a reproducibilityproblem worse than science’sreplication crisis, becausehardly anyone ever goes back… AH Anton Howes — holds since 2023-08-29 — tap for who they are Same subject: Treating history as a march of progress makes whole eras and regions disappear, dismissed for having failed to advance it. — tap to centre the map on it Treating history as a march ofprogress makes whole eras andregions disappear, dismissedfor having failed to advance… AP Ada Palmer — holds since 2017-01-04 — tap for who they are
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At the centre History has no predetermined path: its course turns on unpredictable contingencies rather than on deep currents that would have produced the same outcome anyway. Holds Bret Devereaux Read this korrent →