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Renaissance for the humanities Part of the Renaissance Period (1400s~1500s ish) was a rediscovery of the humanities and classics after a long Middle Ages. It was the ability to have a new take on Plato, Socrates and a new interpretation of Roman texts as well. It was to be able to have new emotions, new interpretations and a new meaning of what came before - politically, socially, artistically and economically. Art for example was still religious (not independent of it till the Enlightenment, The Reformation) but now the religious figures showed human emotion - art before the Renaissance did not. I do think this coming shift with AI is going to prompt and change a lot of what we think about the humanities - a reinterpretation of who we are, and how we can represent ourselves. The story we tell ourselves about who we are will once again be changed and reinterpreted— and with that I do believe our humanities will once again change
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July
@july
I personally think that in order to understand where we are, we must first understand who we are, where we came from, where our influences come from, whose giants we are building on top of - and our past and our collective story (both fiction, and nonfiction and history) of humanity as a whole In many ways so much of what we know is limited to our lifetimes. Beyond that we have to rely on knowledge that our ancestors have left us. It also means we must do our best to interpret our present unique times and the challenges that we face - use it as fuel to realize that we’re in a great opportunity to tell our own stories for future generations to come When we’re able to understand the past and our collective story better, realize we are lucky to have the opportunity to tell the story of what we are presently going through — then we can leave a legacy for future generations to come
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I agree w this so much. It makes me a little nervous the history we pursue and the history we are fed seeing that history is written by the victors. Classrooms, movies, TV, stories told at historical sites particularly within empires are saturated in omissions. Public historians are doing a good job but looking closer, they are up against a lot. Hopefully AI helps them We tend to be obsessed parts if our history without ever truly feeling the human costs and those costs impacting people today. AI will help but I fear it’s going to also complicate and confuse the important work of humanizing humans in those stories
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100%
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