PhilGoetz comments on Common Errors in History - Less Wrong

4 Post author: PhilGoetz 09 February 2010 07:27PM

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Comment author: PhilGoetz 09 February 2010 09:13:48PM 1 point [-]

It's a fine pamphlet, for what it's supposed to do.

You did make the "history is often oversimplified" point, which is a valuable one to remember, but that's the only useful point in the post. I'd rather have made the whole post be about that point.

The other two points are mainly there for humor. (Though I do find it interesting how much more English students learned about history.)