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I wasted about 30 minutes recently watching some pseudo historical videos on youtube with millions of views like this one about atlantis:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oDoM4BmoDQM

Let's be clear it's completely wrong about nearly everything, but it was entertaining and I think would be quite persuasive to a lot of people.

The Turkey archeological digs is the factual underpinning of all these theories, so it goes to show how important it is and how much more of our models we need to clarify.



I'm not sure how comfortable we should be 'knowing' anything we can't make predictions on. There is certainly a spectrum of quality in scientific knowledge and things like psychology and archeology seem on the weak end




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