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Writer at @WIRED. Author of NYT bestseller 'Chaos Monkeys'. Formerly @Facebook, @YCombinator, @GoldmanSachs. Yes, I live on a boat and in a yurt. 🇺🇸🇪🇸

Orcas Island, WA
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    Antonio García Martínez‏Verified account @antoniogm Oct 29

    The more classics you read, whether Latin, Greek, or Hebrew, the more you realize humans learn almost nothing--other than in cumulative fields like science and technology--and that most of history is tiresome repetition.

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      1. Antonio García Martínez‏Verified account @antoniogm Oct 29

        A resurrected Thucydides would read a translated history of the Iraq War and chuckle knowingly. Then he'd exclaim: HOLY FUCKING SHIT WHAT'S THAT MAGIC LIGHTBOX IN YOUR HAND!?

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      2. Alan Levinovitz‏Verified account @AlanLevinovitz Oct 30
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        I don't know. Tiresome repetition...or extraordinary cycles? We have to relearn truths about ourselves as humans in generation after generation, just as adults teach children truths.

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      3. Antonio García Martínez‏Verified account @antoniogm Oct 30
        Replying to @AlanLevinovitz

        Sure, but it's odd how little we learn every generation. I think books, until now the conduit for collective memory, very poorly impart life wisdom.

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      4. Alan Levinovitz‏Verified account @AlanLevinovitz Oct 30
        Replying to @antoniogm

        For sure. I struggle with this—the "I don't know" was meant genuinely. Before books we had...taboos? Oral tradition? None of it works well. It's a cliche, but I wonder if having to relearn is just part of the collective human condition, as it is of individual humans.

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      5. Antonio García Martínez‏Verified account @antoniogm Oct 30
        Replying to @AlanLevinovitz

        Thought experiment: Imagine that, via some sci-fi technology, a moribund but wise 90-yo could impart their lived experience--in all its direct, visceral impact--to an 18-yo just coming of age. Would it make the youngster more effective as a human, or depress them utterly?

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      6. Antonio García Martínez‏Verified account @antoniogm Oct 30
        Replying to @antoniogm @AlanLevinovitz

        Perhaps a certain amount of naive cluelessness is essential for the species to survive.

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      2. Lo Bénichou‏ @LoBenichou Oct 29
        Replying to @antoniogm

        This reminded me of "The Unbearable Lightness of Being." Humans love motifs. That's how we find meaning in our finite little lives.

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      3. Antonio García Martínez‏Verified account @antoniogm Oct 29
        Replying to @LoBenichou

        Wonderful book.

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      2. David Turnbull‏ @drtalbion Oct 30
        Replying to @antoniogm

        Try ‘Plato to NATO’. That will get you thinking about the West

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      3. Ivan Kaltman‏ @WiseDad_Games Oct 30
        Replying to @drtalbion @antoniogm

        Skip Plato, read Meditations or any of the Roman Stoics. That was the zenith of the West's great philosophers.

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      2. Matt Mandel‏ @matthewjmandel Oct 29
        Replying to @antoniogm

        Interesting. Do you take that to be more of a weakness of non-cumulative fields generally (and maybe a reason to focus on tech instead) or an advantage of the classics specifically within non-cumulative fields?

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      3. Santiago Árraga‏ @santiagoarraga Oct 30
        Replying to @matthewjmandel @antoniogm

        Focusing on tech reminds me of the drunk searching for his keys under the street light because there's more light there.

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      2. We Shall Overcome‏ @Tokyo_Tom Oct 29
        Replying to @antoniogm

        Also: The more science you read, the more you realize life forms learn almost nothing and that most of life is tiresome, repetitive struggle to find food, nutrients, survive environmental changes/predation/parasitism, and reproduce. How shocking this is played out by humans too!

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      1. North Coast Blog‏ @northcoastblog Oct 29
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        Sad but true. We learn some hard lessons in the short term. But then hard memories like the horror of war and brutality fade and later generations repeat the mistakes.

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      2. Uncommon Sense‏ @_UncommonSensei Oct 30
        Replying to @antoniogm

        We can't even remember recent history. Economic instability, far right nationalist and far left socialist movements. Tensions between the East and West. Military saber rattling. Feels an awful lot like 1930.

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      2. Kara Peterson‏ @KaraJulianna Oct 29
        Replying to @antoniogm

        "Tiresome repetition." Reminds me of my Twitter feed.

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