That’s why I think we need fair sampling.

You can actually do that for the past to a certain extent.

Books used to be expensive to create, and the most important ones were made to be even more expensive.

Before print you if you just focused on the most beautiful books (in terms of cover, illuminations, illustrations) you’d focusing on the information people thought valuable enough to spend resources to attach huge amounts of proof-of-work to it.

You could read just 20 books in your whole life and be very well informed abou all *relevant* events of history— and you didn’t need to trust your social graph.

People usually get it completely wrong about the Church restricting knowledge during the Middle Ages — it was the other way around, they were tirelessly working to preserve information, in a mostly decentralized manner.

It was just *after* the printing press that censorship become a relevant problem — because they tried to keep the world from changing by fiat, which was doomed to fail and end in corruption.