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How to Roman Republic, Part IV: The Senate
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HN really needs to add "No AI generated comments" to the site rules. I'm not interested in reading AI summaries in comments here; I come for actual discussion by real people.
I don't see how a short AI summary dissuades actual discussion by real people. If anything, it can lower the barrier to entry and encourage more people to comment and participate, especially for longform pieces.
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#13This is the reason I think about the Roman Empire at least once a week!
Our release tool is called "Roderick", as-in the Monty Python "Life of Brian" sketch. TBH I don't think about the Roman Empire much apart from that, I mean, what did they ever do for us?
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#14Earlier quoted context omitted.
HN really needs to add "No AI generated comments" to the site rules. I'm not interested in reading AI summaries in comments here; I come for actual discussion by real people.
I don't see how a short AI summary dissuades actual discussion by real people. If anything, it can lower the barrier to entry and encourage more people to comment and participate, especially for longform pieces.
It's just noise, you can read the moderation side of it here:
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#15This is the reason I think about the Roman Empire at least once a week!
This has the be the funniest trend to come out of Tiktok. My SO point blank asked me how many times I thought about the roman empire and I replied "I don't know, once or twice a week". Little does she know we get a post from acoup every week! Reference (for those out of the loop): https://www.forbes.com/sites/conormurray/2023/09/18/how-ofte...
thanks for the reference. I mean i could have websearched around for a while, but i've been asking everyone that comments in my friends group, about this topic, and i'm getting "it was a trend" but not where or why it started.
when 1/8th of the planet knows about a trend and i'm out of the loop...
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#16This is the reason I think about the Roman Empire at least once a week!
That is one of the great ironies of the meme…
Most people self-identifying that they think about the Roman Empire don’t seem to know the difference between the Roman Republic & Roman Empire (much less the period of Kings)…it’s all just the Roman Empire.
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#17I think I’m almost out of this illness. Still sweating the fever but no migraines
Ive been reading a lot because that’s about the only thing I can do so I read the original Gallic wars from Julius Cesar and its funny because he’s painted like a bad guy today for becoming a dictator but the Senate was at that point so corrupt and inefficient and everyone hated it so he wasn’t the only one trying to get rid of democracy. Julius Caesar had actually been involved in four attempted coups before he got it done. And he was popular with the public even after his death so that makes sense
I’m sure a lot of here think of the Roman Empire almost obsessively. How bad is this turn toward extrémeme censorship and surveillance? At what point do people say to hell with it and bring back kingship?
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#18I hope he does a series like this on civic governance in Han China next!
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#19Point to Charlie Munger, whom I was critical of a few days ago, how is so much written on how the Roman Republic worked, without talking about the most basic of incentive structures that drove its citizens to work like no others in the first place - The Law of Twelve Tables? It gave every citizen property rights that were protected by the State. The system was _the_ get rich game for the common man (after Alexander r…
And look! The problems started when the wealthy Senators started hoarding land in the aftermath of the Punic and Greek conquests. The Gracchi - land reform issues! Marius - land reform issues! Caesar - land reform issues!
It's as if history rhymes.
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#20I think I’m almost out of this illness. Still sweating the fever but no migraines Ive been reading a lot because that’s about the only thing I can do so I read the original Gallic wars from Julius Cesar and its funny because he’s painted like a bad guy today for becoming a dictator but the Senate was at that point so corrupt and inefficient and everyone hated it so he wasn’t the only one trying to get rid of democrac…
> At what point do people say to hell with it and bring back kingship?
That seems to be well in progress, though I don't think anyone is actually using the term 'king' yet.