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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. 🇺🇸🇪🇸

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    1. 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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      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!?

      5:37 PM - 29 Oct 2018
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        1. White Man Ⓜ️‏ @BotPropaganda Oct 29
          Replying to @antoniogm

          hahahttps://www.nybooks.com/daily/2018/10/29/what-thucydides-knew-about-the-us-today/ …

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        2. Max Schorer‏ @maxschorer Oct 29
          Replying to @antoniogm

          If you like Thucydides then you’ll love Assassins Creed: Odyssey

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        3. Roger Rabit‏ @charliebrown991 Oct 30
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          Good game?

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        4. Max Schorer‏ @maxschorer Oct 30
          Replying to @charliebrown991 @antoniogm

          If you like RPGs, Ancient Greek history, and avoiding important chores at home, it's pretty great

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        2. James Slezak‏ @jslez Oct 29
          Replying to @antoniogm

          I agree. But despite it being uncool to admit, I think @sapinker makes a strong case that general levels of civility have increased: despite violence not going to zero, London circa 1600s was probably more depraved than Raqqa 2016. So maybe we learnt something on that front too

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        1. AtticusOz‏ @AtticusOz Oct 30
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          Yet Thucydides believed in slavery and female inferiority as a matter of course. Progress does occur outside science and technology.

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        1. Paul Murany‏ @PMurany Oct 30
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          Just how exactly do you think the Peloponnesian War is in any way similar to The Iraq War? All this "history repeats itself" crap is intellectually facile.

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        1. voltpathDOTca‏ @voltpathDOTca Oct 30
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          Nihil novum sub solis

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        1. Young Geezer‏ @HarrimanNelson Oct 30
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          Your joke should have been in Greek.

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        1. Arthurisalive‏ @Arthurisalive1 Oct 30
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          They only had Nokia 710 back then and really poor reception.

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        1. Commish‏ @COMMISH_the Oct 29
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          And we only live in such a smallllll window

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