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Re:Preventing the Collapse of Civilization / Jonathan Blow [... by peatfreak on Friday October 02, 2020 @05:34PM (#24667240)
I don't like the part where Elon Musk is saying that "isn't it a shame" that the Egyptians' pyramids and the Romans' aqueducts were highlights of science and engineering, and that the skills to create them atrophied or were forgotten.

I'm kind of glad that we don't do things like trying to replicate the glory of the pyramids if it's true that they required masses upon masses of slave labor to build them. Similarly for the aqueducts (I don't know if slave labor was used to build them, and a Wikipedia search didn't yield anything useful).

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Re:Preventing the Collapse of Civilization / Jonathan Blow [... by WhyNott on Friday October 02, 2020 @05:52PM (#24667392)
Have you ever seen the way modern AAA video games are made? I have a feeling they are really the product of our time (large amounts of money, poor labour laws, etc), and we are not going to see anything of a similar scope before or after for a while at least.
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