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Reinventing the Renaissance

27 points by Petiver

by kjhughes

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Related: Dwarkesh Patel recently interviewed Ada Palmer:
Why Leonardo was a saboteur, Gutenberg went broke, and Florence was weird – Ada Palmer
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PAIhVfGbREA

by throw0101c

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While most folks are aware of "the" Renaissance, there were others earlier, e.g.:
* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Medieval_renaissances

by skybrian

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> although there are traces of an earlier edition published by a more popular press
What’s that referring to?

by aerodexis

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Given that today there's a concerted effort to effect a similar invention today wrt AI, this book is highly relevant.