The Repeated Cycles of Western Civilization

Lane: We have an example of that, and we see it in front of us. That's the fossilized Chinese civilization. And so basically they've constituted a giant fossilized civilization with certain timeless Chinese values. The question is, for Western civilization, you know, are we going to become a fossilized gigantic vegetation like China? Maybe precipitated by the AI. Yeah, well, that's what Nick Lane says, something like that.

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