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worthless-trash06/17/20251 replyview on HN

I think you're being too fixated on your own perspective. History is nothing but the individual having a large blast radius.

History ABSOLUTELY unfolds the way it does because they were tired of being 'taking the reasonable/way that makes sense path'.

You can argue that every invention from the wheel forward has had this approach.


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pasquinelli06/17/2025

> History ABSOLUTELY unfolds the way it does because they were tired of being 'taking the reasonable/way that makes sense path'.

i think we're talking at cross purposes. quoting myself:

>> ...everyone's doing the same thing: avoiding pain, uncertainty, and the limitation of their future choices; seeking pleasure, security, and to increase their future choices.

do you think that doesn't characterize the motivating factors that lead to invention?

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