None of the people who wrote Greek classics believed in Western Civilization. Western civ just consumed those ideas after the fact. What kind of society will consume our ideas?
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Replying to @replicaofself
whoa, good question. I doubt people will scroll through thousand year old twitter threads... it's also hard to say what modern ideas will be important in the future
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Replying to @_molten_steel_ @replicaofself
future civs will create data archaeologist cyborgs (as in human brain augmented by AI search tools) to go over terabytes of data at a glance
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our works won't be judged as a coherent corpus, like the kind of thing you can stock a shelf with in a library. it will be perceived like geological strata, a sediment layer of archaic data that coats the datalogical ground everything else is built on top of.
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