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Monasteries were both sacred book-production centers and concentrated stores of wealth, making them traumatic targets for monks and attractive targets for Vikings seeking precious metals.
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After Rome, wealth was not simply gone; Jiang says it became distributed, then reconcentrated in monasteries as Charlemagne's kingdoms arose.
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Jiang says AI consolidates wealth and information because advanced AI depends on massive data centers that are prohibitively expensive, resource-intensive, and therefore controlled by a small number of state-corporate actors.
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"So you look at Twitter, right? I mean, like, when Musk came in, he fired, like, 1,000, 1,000 employees, and he had, like, a..."
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"So the monasteries were built during something called the Carolingian Renaissance. And this marked the beginning of the Holy Roman Empire. During this time,..."
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"They also invented bookbinding at this time as well. And what they would do to mark their cultural achievement is they would make covers..."
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"they would come in, and they would take these books, the Bible, rip out the pages, and keep the gold, and then leave. Okay?..."
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"Okay? The opportunity are monasteries. After the collapse of the Roman Empire, everyone believes that Europe became a lot poorer. Okay? And that's historical..."
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