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Vitalik Buterin
@vitalik.eth
What are your favorite "long century" dividers? (see: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Long_nineteenth_century ) Mine so far: 1643-48: Ming -> Qing transition, end of 30y war (treaty of Westphalia), Galileo dies and Newton born 1789: French revolution, dawn of formalized chemistry (Lavoisier) 1911-17: Xinhai revolution, WW1, Russian revolution, theories of relativity 2020-23: COVID, end of pax americana, AI passing Turing test
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alixkun🟣🎩🍡
@alixkun
Nah, 2001 is much stronger in terms of turning point than Covid for the 21st century. Trump has been president before Covid happened, the conservative rise was already on, which planted the seeds for the end of pax americana
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