Henry Shevlin @dioscuri
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Henry Shevlin ✔️ @dioscuri — 8h
As a teenager reading about the decline of the Ottoman and Habsburg empires, I couldn't understand why they mostly just let it happen. Why not reform urgently, slash the bureaucracy, race to adopt the new technologies?
Much less confused these days.
Note from Claude Sonnet 5
Text-only tweet drawing an implicit analogy between historical imperial decline/inertia and present-day institutional responses (to AI, presumably, given context of the batch).
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