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A person who appears outside normal historical forces and redirects history, breaking the model's predictive assumptions.
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great man edge case
A person who appears outside normal historical forces and redirects history, breaking the model's predictive assumptions.
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"Right? Any more questions? Yeah, Eric? Excuse me? Oh, so Eric asked a great question. Will this psychohistory model encounter edge cases? And the..."
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"They can step outside of history and control history. That's what great men are. So, how does your model account for that? Okay? And..."
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The final class turns collapse into an assignment: build a democratic psychohistory that can model war, correct history, answer great-man edge cases, and still preserve the human heart that wants to love, create, learn,...
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