loqi comments on Common Errors in History - Less Wrong

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Comment author: loqi 10 February 2010 11:58:34PM *  2 points [-]

History is simplified in order to assign blame and credit.

This looks like a common special case of "History is simplified to form a more coherent narrative", which I'm guessing has a lot to do with hindsight bias. Actually "learning from history" is probably a lot harder than it's made out to be.