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Historical counterfactuals are thought experiments, whereas software can test counterfactual scenarios.
Unidentified speaker · Si Sheppard – How did a few hundred Spanish soldiers topple two empires? · 1 Oct 2026
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“Obviously with history,”
“counterfactuals are just thought experiments.”
“But with software,”
“you can actually test them.”Play from 1:06:44Report a misattribution
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