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Jiang defines Pax Silica as the idea that silicon-backed artificial intelligence becomes the new world power.
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"...idea is that artificial intelligence backed by silicon is the new world power. The problem with Pax Silica is that it's really a trade..."
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"...spiritual and legal authority which the rulers of the two theocratic world powers, the Caliph and the Emperor, enjoyed. Yet the conversion to either..."
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"...I'm wrong, but you're thinking of another chapter of a major world power, a unipolar world in this case, a Pax Judica taking shape..."
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"...extent, there need to be like sort of like a new world power on the level of America. None exist."
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"...Vietnam that didn't necessarily translate to the Soviet Union becoming a world power uh what exactly is different in the Ukraine -Russo war uh..."
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"...collapse that allowed the Assyrians and the Babylonians to eventually become world powers. So the Bronze Age collapse was not a global phenomenon. It..."
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