Dwarkesh Patel
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18,929 appearances
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3 series
first heard Feb 2024
last heard 11 Sep
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Well, that might be once again possible.
It already is somewhat true where I think most of the at least half of the words I read on a given day are generated specifically for me and nobody else because of AI.
And obviously, AI is
not capable of writing something which I think would be a literary masterpiece that everybody would want to read if they had access to it just yet.
But eventually it will be.
And so it's interesting to consider that as this knowledge progresses, it would bring us back to this era of bespoke scholars dedicated to a particular prince.
Yeah.
That actually brings up the question of how many such tracks through history, which are of the quality of the prince, are as original at their time as the princes and as wonderfully crafted and so on that have been lost to history.
And maybe one way to answer this question or think about it is to talk about how the prince itself was.
went into mass publishing.
So at some point in 1532, the Medici Pope allows for its publishing.
And then 27 years later, then it is censored by that same papacy.
And so how does this book that Machiavelli himself did not want out in wide circulation end up in wide circulation and then stop ending up in wide circulation and then end up in wide circulation again?
Can I try out a counter thesis just so you can dispel my confusion?
Definitely.
One reason why Machiavelli might have gained a special significance in the 19th century is that now that you have these republics in the world, there's a question of how you make sure that they are maintained.
And that is really the question that at least the first third of the discourses is obsessed with.
But one of the ways which says that you do this is by having a religion that people take into very strong consideration.
I think he says at some point early in the discourses that
The more significant than Romulus in the founding of Rome was Numa or whoever it was that gave the Roman gods and the Roman religion some legitimacy.
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