SybilBenjamin Disraeli, Walter Sichel
Sybil
by Benjamin Disraeli, Walter Sichel
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Empirically I just asked Astra without using the internet to exactly reproduce the first paragraph from Hamlet, Othello, Pride and Prejudice, Sartor Resartus by Thomas Carlyle), Sybil by Benjamin Disraeli (1845). GPT-6 got everything correct: https://chatgpt.com/share/6ac2a72c-e8bc-83e8-8f42-da8c7542de... No human on earth can copy at this scale. Yes AI is beyond a database lookup,…
on “Pop!_OS bans AI-generated code from much of its codebase” ↗…(1823). Pierre-Joseph Proudhon used the term "capitalist" in his first work, What is Property? (1840), to refer to the owners of capital. Benjamin Disraeli used the term "capitalist" in his 1845 work Sybil. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capitalism
on “Everything Is Going Deep: ‘The Age of Surveillance Capitalism’” ↗…history, I find Venice at the center of similar intriques. Also interesting to me is some of the references to the 18th century England political class as the "Venetian party" (such as in Benjamin Disraeli's Sybil). Dutch and British East India company history is something I really need to find a good book on.
on “When You’re Outnumbered: Lessons from Two British Masters of Irregular Warfare” ↗