Pictures from my recent talk on the role of knowledge in civilization.pic.twitter.com/2TjdiHqUld
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In the talk I mentioned Monasteries as an interesting social technology. Monasteries transmit knowledge by creating a socioeconomic niche through recruiting atomized individuals into a super scaled household.
A paper on the dichromic Lycurgus cup I mention http://master-mcn.u-strasbg.fr/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/lycurgus.pdf … The original researchers admiringly noted trace amounts of silver and gold and proposed it was a fluke. This is unlikely given other fragments of such glass have since been found. Illustrates bias!pic.twitter.com/o6deJR4MaQ
http://www.britishmuseum.org/pdf/212%20A%20Rothschild%20Renaissance%20for%20web.pdf … The cup was bought by the British Museum in 1958 from Victor, Lord Rothschild for a mere £20,000. The Rothschild family bought the cup soon after its discovery in the 19th century...
In every society functional institutions end up subsidizing mediocre ones.
I quite like the point made @ 8m. The rationalistic constructs that in the aggregate constitute "civilization" (e.g. laws, policies, institutions) operate according to an essentially inhuman logic
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