If William Shakespeare were writing his works now instead of 425 years ago, he would be, and remain, unknown. Too difficult to read.

The literary geniuses of our age are therefore also our postal workers and janitors, never to be discovered, not even by the AI internet archeologists of the future, because AI rates as best that which is most predictable.

Peak civilization is not ahead of us.

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