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Vitalik Buterin
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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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Venkatesh Rao ☀️
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1870, roughly the point Brad DeLong marks as the shift from ~2% growth in the world economy to systematically higher, in Slouching Towards Utopia. One of the most rigorously defended dividers of this sort. https://www.amazon.com/Economic-History-Twentieth-Century/dp/0465019595 I am more a fan of 400-year periodizations than 100 personally (short half-milleniums instead of long centuries). In the book club I'm running this year, we're doing 1200-1600, "pre-modernity." The bookends for that period are the 4th crusade and the trials of Galileo, Bruno etc.
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