In 1000 years, will historians have an easier or harder time learning about our time period due to the massive amount of information we record?
Will they be able to have an accurate picture or will the sheer amount of info they would have to sift through with conflicting information make it impossible to determine the way an event actually transpired?
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Historians will have an easier time, because there is so much information they can choose from to create a historical narrative to suit their thesis.
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>>1519726
In 1000 years, this planet will have been reduced to its consituient elements to feed the AI mass orbiting around the sun.
I think it'll view our "history" the same way we would view a life history of a particular bacterium.
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>>1519726
If the Internet gets wiped out/shut down for some reason it's gonna be pretty fuckin hard.
Otherwise should be easy enough.
What are some /his/ approved books that are really good, informative, and accurate reads?
>Pic related
This is what I'm currently reading. I didn't look too much into how accurate/reliable it is. It was an impulse buy, seems good so far, even though my Crusades knowledge is limited.
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Good book that explains how the HRE functioned. Dispels a lot of the memes that people here seem to take as fact
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>>1520030
The what?!
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>>1520030
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If I was President, the first bill I would try to get passed would be one that would say "All AI created must be created to hold a reverence for human beings and human liberty" with a mandatory minimum of the Capital Punishment
I just think we're very close to a major boundary in human civilization
The deeper we go into the Age of Information the more screwed we're going to be.
Capitalism breaks down as Corporations gain more and more technological abilities.
We're going to have major problems if Corporations continue to exist and exist to make profit and hold copyrights over new technologies.
I'd conjecture most of humanity's problems are because we cannot pass down memories or ideas to our offspring.
I can't pass down morality or virtue or a reverence for personal freedom and liberty to my children. They must be taught that. The same way every child must be taught of these things.
Every generation has to go through their own enlightenment.
Yet they don't.
Because of this you get virtueless authoritarians like Hillary Clinton who seek power.
Imagine if we've created AI by now.
Imagine what she would do with AI and other technology.
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Some interesting thoughts. I don't tend to think of the implications of actual groundbreaking AI development since I never really think that we're all that close or ever will be.
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>>1519041
Quantum computers already exist we are not far from a technological singularity. We can only go forward in technology ,we depend on it to much to turn back now. Either we somehow fuck it up with like a nuke or a e.m.p or some other shit then we are really close.
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>>1520532
In the upcoming collapse of the West, we can use that as an opportunity to destroy all technology and start from scratch to only hope that another brave soul will continue the cycle of destruction the next time. Empires collapse for a reason.
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Cryptocurrency/Econ Question 2016-08-07 17:06:49 Post No.1518979
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Hey /his/,
I know there's a lot of econ majors hiding in the woodworks on this board, and I've got a question for you.
Consider a situation where a cryptocurrency is pegged to the price of oil and the dollar, so that its 50% of its value is based on the price of the dollar, and the other 50% on the price of a barrel of oil. Let's call it BitOil.
Would it make sense for an American oil company to adopt BitOil to pay its workers? In the event of a dip in the price of oil, wages would essentially adjust automatically.
Would it also makes sense for the American oil industry to start transacting in BitOil? Say, to pay for oil rigs and various equipment?
Would a cryptocurrency like BitOil make sense from a business standpoint?
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The point of pegging currencies to anything is to ensure constant and consistent value in the currency, and to aid in international trade. Why, you would peg your currency to a material which fluctuates rapidly based on the political feelings of a few Arab nobles, and whatever the fuck the Fed is feeling is beyond me. May as well just keep your money in dollars and oil.
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>>1518979
wouldn't it be better to ask these questions on /biz/?
they're good questions, but humanities doesn't mean economics.
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why does someone keep posting this shit picture?
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So, I keep hearing about the Frankfurt School and such and how it's a big Jewish conspiracy. What was the Frankfurt school really? Is there any validity yo the claim that Zionists had an influence in it? What came out of it and how did it influence education and politics? Was it da joos or not?
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>The school's main figures sought to learn from and synthesize the works of such varied thinkers as Kant, Hegel, Marx, Freud, Weber, and Lukács
Freud, Marx, Lukács were all juice, Weber is not a joo himself, but he wrote Ancient Judaism
Herbert Marcuse, Max Horkheimer, Walter Benjamin, Erich Fromm, Siegfried Kracauer are juice.
Theodor W. Adorno, Friedrich Pollock, Leo Löwenthal's fathers are all "assimilated" joos, and Löwenthal's mother as well.
Jürgen Habermas is not a joo, however:
>In December 2000, in Paris, Habermas gave a lecture entitled "How to answer the ethical question?" at the Judeities. Questions for Jacques Derrida conference organized by Joseph Cohen and Raphael Zagury-Orly.
Alfred Schmidt, Axel Honneth are also not juice
Of the "notable theorists" 3 out of 11 are non-juice.
>What came out of it and how did it influence education and politics?
Marcuse is the father of the New Left in France, Germany and the US.
Adorno made attacking Western culture and Karl Popper the purpose of his existence, and propagandizing post-nazi German sins-of-the-father mentality regarding the Holocaust and modern so-called art.
>Perry Anderson sees Horkheimer's attempt to make the Institute purely academic as “symptomatic of a more universal process, the emergence of a ‘Western Marxism’ divorced from the working-class movement and dominated by academic philosophers and the 'product of defeat’” because of the isolation of the Russian Revolution
Benjamin wrote on the aestheticization of politics and
>The members [of the Internationale Walter Benjamin Gesellschaft] felt liberated to take Benjamin's ideas as a welcome touchstone for social change quality of Pop music for example
>Central to Fromm's world view was his interpretation of the Talmud and Hasidism
>Löwenthal [final survivor of FS’s inner circle] displayed an extraordinary ability to maintain close friendships with scholars in disparate fields and begin new ones with members of very different generations
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>>1543247
Interesting. Any resources or links I can read?
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>>1543247
>Adorno made attacking Western culture
This is why he loved classical music and shat on jazz
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Throughout history since the 20th century, women have constantly made their clothes more and more revealing. The dresses were long, then made shorter and shorter, and now we have what we have today.
Was it the same with men? Did they ever bitch about clothes? How did men's clothing evolve when in comparison to women's?
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My grandfather use to wear suits to the beach.
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>>1538346
I'm honestly pissed I can't wear a skirt without looking like a faggot or a tranny but women can dress like men and nobody gives a shit.
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>>1538366
I totally agree. I would be wearing leggings and skirts all the damn time. I'm not a tranny but it just feels good.
I am pretty gay though.
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Was the USSR really "less free" than the United States during the Cold War?
All people had access to necessary social services, while in America poverty was a death sentence in the event of a medical emergency.
Lynchings were rampant and African Americans by and large were prohibited from entering government. In the USSR, ethnic violence was ended and minorities from the provinces could (and did!) reach great heights in the government.
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Well, you can just look at numbers of deaths and compare USSR and USA directly.
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>>1540196
Ah yes, resurrecting that old Soviet line of whataboutism.
>ethnic violence was ended
No, it wasn't. I don't know who told you that, but minorities were often picked on by the government in the Soviet Union when shit went sideways (which was 90% of the time). Saying anything bad about the party was a death sentence. Even not saying anything bad about the party could be a death sentence if you personally pissed off some official or they needed a scape goat. Don't kid yourself, there wasn't anything free about the Soviet Union. Not even the healthcare.
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>>1540215
This, my grandpa was arrested because he said a vaguely anti party joke
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Was there some sort of war against snails in medieval times?
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It was just a big scribe in-joke. Snails were a book's/scribe's worst enemy because they would eat paper
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>>1539842
they are too slow
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>>1539855
GET OVER HERE
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I've always found the history of Dacia quite saddening. They seemed to have been pretty prosperous and powerful, while having the misfortune of being right next to the Roman Empire at its height and having an autistic king that fucked everything up.
About that, I find the last 40-50 years of its existence so annoying. It's like a recipe for fucking up:
1. Intervene in roman civil wars on the wrong side, angering the winners.
2. Raid roman lands for no reason other than "more gold lol", even though you already have plenty of gold, BTFO Domitian, proceed to humiliate romans as hard as you can.
3. Raid romans some more for no reason other than "gold lol"
4. Trajan comes to smack some sense into you, after minor skirmishes gives you a decent peace deal where you get free stuff
5. Lol no more gold lol :DDDD
6. Trajan comes again with more legions, has minor victories but not willing to continue, gives you another decent peace deal
7. Lol gold lol :DD
8. Trajan has enough of your shit, conquers you entirely and proceeds to fuck your culture up as hard as he can.
Did any other kingdom fuck up as hard as Dacia under Decebal?
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Carthage never seemed to have taken their wars with Rome seriously until the third Punic war.
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>>1539091
>third Punic war
>third
meme
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>>1539091
Yeah, Carthage is probably as tragic. I actually wonder if Rome saw Dacia's resourcefulness and feared that if allowed to prosper it'd become a second Carthage.
But yeah third punic war is a meme.
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How could one man have so much insight? He destroyed the most prominent Christian myths and permanently altered intellectual society away from Christian thought.
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>>1538258
>He destroyed the most prominent Christian myths and permanently altered intellectual society away from Christian thought.
No, he didn't. New Athiests and Sam Harris exist, so he is a failure. "Christianity may live or die, but Christian Ethics are my target"
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>>1538336
ebin
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>>1539222
ebin
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Pic: 1960's Afghanistan classroom.
What went so horribly wrong? Reasonable arguments please. The world would be infinitely nicer with a liberalised (islamic) culture.
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LMAO LET'S SUPPORT THE FREEDOM FIGHTERS
WHAT COULD GO WRONG
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Islamic communism
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The Cold War, friend.
Which is the strangest war you know?
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>>1535743
War of the league of Cambri
Some war between Spain and the Netherlands in the 1500's where the only loss was a bowl of soup
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>>1535754
Don't you mean this one?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kettle_War
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The Great Turkish War
The Ottomans suffered their greatest defeat in this war at the Battle of Zenta in 1697, 14 years after the disastrous defeat at Vienna.
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Civilization VI (and other history vidya) 2016-08-09 14:28:18 Post No.1526982
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Civilization VI (and other history vidya)
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Pandering confirmed
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3PfDkGcSNE0
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I don't really mind tbqh
I'm just glad it's an interesting "civ"
I mean civ 4 had plenty of fem leaders
besides, who cares? It seems you people just look for things to get triggered over
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>>1526988
She doesn't belong in Civ, she's just a paragraph from Herodotus.
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>>1526982
WE WUZ SARMATIANS AND SCYTHIANS N SHIET
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karni_Mata_Temple
Anyone able to explain what the fuck went wrong with Hinduism?
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>>1532271
The worshiped "lucky" white rat
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>>1532271
Meanwhile thousands of Indian kids starve to death each day
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Other than China and Japan, why has there been no Great Powers in the modern era that is not a European, Slav or American country?
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>>1544288
Great Power is a meaningless term whose parameters change depending on the user of the term.
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>>1544288
Other than the US, why has there been no Great Powers in the modern era that is not European, Slav or East Asian?
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>>1544288
I wouldn't call Japan a great power.
If Japan is a great power then so are India and Iran.
Gulf states are powerful too, more so than Japan.