Maybe it’s the week in Istanbul and reading about early Christian history and the transition from fringe cult to state religion to world force at the ground zero where it all played out, surrounded by the remains of the history… but I’m reading the AI events in a very particular way.

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Not just Eastern European history, but *all* of European history is more strongly driven by the Eastern Orthodox church history that played out in Constantinople than the Western/Catholic history. At least until the reformation.

That said, I hope to hell the AI doomer EA/alignment millenarian cult remains a fringe force and does not end up with power comparable to either the Catholic or Eastern Orthodox Church of AI. 

Any such development will not stop or even slow the evolution of AI but will make it significantly dumber.

I’ve visited Rome twice but now having been to Istanbul, it feels like a Rome-centric view of Western history is as wrong as a western-allies view of WW2 that elides the dominant soviet role in the fighting of the war (if not the financing and technological arming).

The Byzantine and Persian interactions are under appreciated as well… that conflict reminds me of china and the us… note the rise of the caliphate came out of left field then… a human tsunami that mirrors today

The Byzantine and Persian interactions are under appreciated as well… that conflict reminds me of china and the us… note the rise of the caliphate came out of left field then… a human tsunami that mirrors today 

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