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Akaash Singh

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Luke Caverns on Lost Civilizations of the Amazon + Why They Burned Alexandria

um a human being's right to you know sovereignty and thought and like like what created that kind of okay so this is yeah so this is what we're learning right throughout history everything every single civilization that you touch on they have security they have borders and they have food so this is a long time this is the dark side of the athenian world um

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Luke Caverns on Lost Civilizations of the Amazon + Why They Burned Alexandria

So like... But were the Athenians warmongers?

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Luke Caverns on Lost Civilizations of the Amazon + Why They Burned Alexandria

Like where was their muscle?

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Luke Caverns on Lost Civilizations of the Amazon + Why They Burned Alexandria

Yeah, yeah.

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Luke Caverns on Lost Civilizations of the Amazon + Why They Burned Alexandria

And what about people who ran restaurants, farms, security, policing?

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Luke Caverns on Lost Civilizations of the Amazon + Why They Burned Alexandria

There must have been jobs to maintain infrastructure in the city.

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Luke Caverns on Lost Civilizations of the Amazon + Why They Burned Alexandria

So is this what happens with society once AI and robots become functional?

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Luke Caverns on Lost Civilizations of the Amazon + Why They Burned Alexandria

God, I don't know.

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Luke Caverns on Lost Civilizations of the Amazon + Why They Burned Alexandria

Just get, like, indentured servants type vibe?

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Luke Caverns on Lost Civilizations of the Amazon + Why They Burned Alexandria

Essentially, you have indentured servants, and you have a obligation to take part in government, society, or whatever it is.

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Luke Caverns on Lost Civilizations of the Amazon + Why They Burned Alexandria

And, like, these indentured servants, or these robots or whatever, fighting each other in a war doesn't really make any sense.

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Luke Caverns on Lost Civilizations of the Amazon + Why They Burned Alexandria

I mean, that's just, like, who runs out of robots first, and then eventually it's people.

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Luke Caverns on Lost Civilizations of the Amazon + Why They Burned Alexandria

Yeah.

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Luke Caverns on Lost Civilizations of the Amazon + Why They Burned Alexandria

They would pay people to watch sports?

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Luke Caverns on Lost Civilizations of the Amazon + Why They Burned Alexandria

So Marcus Aurelius was just ripping off the Stoics.

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Luke Caverns on Lost Civilizations of the Amazon + Why They Burned Alexandria

Oh, he was obsessed with ancient Greece.

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Luke Caverns on Lost Civilizations of the Amazon + Why They Burned Alexandria

How did they keep the Spartans at bay?

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Luke Caverns on Lost Civilizations of the Amazon + Why They Burned Alexandria

If you have this dominant military force...

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Luke Caverns on Lost Civilizations of the Amazon + Why They Burned Alexandria

Why don't they just take over all of Greece?

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Luke Caverns on Lost Civilizations of the Amazon + Why They Burned Alexandria

The Spartans?