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x Ada Palmer: Inventing the Renaissance — LessWrong World Modeling Curated 2026 Top Fifty: 26 % 306 Ada Palmer: Inventing the Renaissance by Martin Sustrik 26th Jan 2026 250bpm 15 min read 22 306 This is a cross-post from https://www.250bpm.com/p/ada-palmer-inventing-the-renaissance . For over a decade, Ada Palmer, a history professor at University of Chicago (and a science-fiction writer !), struggled to teach Machiavelli. “I kept changing my approach, trying new things: which texts, what combinations, expanding how many class sessions he got…” The problem, she explains, is that “Machiavelli

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