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Re:US and UK refuse to sign AI safety declaration at summit by robwwilliams on Thursday February 13, 2025 @09:54AM (#43036451)
Lots of good content here, but the main group that “suffered” from the invention and spread of the printing press was the aristocracy, so i am not shedding tears.

As for “breaking” Christianity: Christianity has been one schism after another for 2000 years: a schism from a schism from a schism. Power plays all the way down to Magog.

Socrates complained about how writing and the big boom in using the new Greek alphabet was ruining civilization and true learning.

And on and on it goes.

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Re:US and UK refuse to sign AI safety declaration at summit by BurningFrog on Thursday February 13, 2025 @11:26AM (#43037653)
The reformations wars lasted half a century and killed tens of millions. Parts of Europe were nearly depopulated.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thirty_Years%27_War

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Re:US and UK refuse to sign AI safety declaration at summit by robwwilliams on Thursday February 13, 2025 @04:27PM (#43041595)
Yes, but I think massive technical improvements in munitions, methods of siege warfare and the switch to flintlocks and cartridges were much more proximal cause of destruction than the printing press.

Give a ruler and ruling class a new weapon and off they go killing and destroying more “efficiently”.

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Re:US and UK refuse to sign AI safety declaration at summit by froidpink on Thursday February 13, 2025 @10:59AM (#43037227)
Not really.

Before the Reformation there had only been one schism (Eastern Roman Empire - Orthodox; Western Roman Empire - Catholic).

The Reformation was the time where fragmentation of Christianity really exploded

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Re:US and UK refuse to sign AI safety declaration at summit by ike2792 on Thursday February 13, 2025 @11:10AM (#43037386)
There was the Arian heresy in the 4th century that caused a de facto schism and divided the Church off and on for a couple of centuries.
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