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7/5/2025, 12:24:54 AM
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History, technology, progress (a subjective measurement) is not linear - it is exponential and filled with false starts and dead ends.
Just because you have all the ingredients in your kitchen to bake a souffle doesn't mean you're just gonna make one if you have no concept for it. Romans 'could have' made steam engines at scale and begun industrialization - but for their economy, system of governance, and scientific and cultural framework there was no reason to put all the pieces together for industrialization. They had no concept for it - markets back then didn't work the way they do now, trade as well.
But also - who knows? We've had these brains for more or less a quarter million years - a perfectly reasonable amount of time for multiple industrial age civilizations to crop up, blow themselves up, and then disappear with next to no evidence of them remaining within 20,000 years. Could've happened at least two dozen times in that timeframe. We'll probably never know.
History, technology, progress (a subjective measurement) is not linear - it is exponential and filled with false starts and dead ends.
Just because you have all the ingredients in your kitchen to bake a souffle doesn't mean you're just gonna make one if you have no concept for it. Romans 'could have' made steam engines at scale and begun industrialization - but for their economy, system of governance, and scientific and cultural framework there was no reason to put all the pieces together for industrialization. They had no concept for it - markets back then didn't work the way they do now, trade as well.
But also - who knows? We've had these brains for more or less a quarter million years - a perfectly reasonable amount of time for multiple industrial age civilizations to crop up, blow themselves up, and then disappear with next to no evidence of them remaining within 20,000 years. Could've happened at least two dozen times in that timeframe. We'll probably never know.
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