51 sats \ 0 replies \ @elvismercury 4 May \ parent \ on: The Lucretius Problem: How History Blinds Us mostly_harmless
Yeah, it's a fine line indeed.
The other nitpicky hill that I'll die on is "absence of evidence is not evidence of absence." Absence of evidence absolutely and irrefutably IS evidence of absence. It is not, however, proof of absence.
96% of human kind seems incapable of appreciating nuance -- they run from one shitty take to the equivalent shitty take at the other end of the spectrum. This is why I am chronically miserable.