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Visakan Veerasamy@visakanv• over 5 years ago

what is the modern equivalent of wealthy florentine bankers paying artists to make some of the greatest art that defined their generation? we have a rocketeer and a anti-malaria guy, but who's making epic sculptures, cathedrals, maybe a grand library? yachts are boring, man

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Visakan Veerasamy@visakanv• over 5 years ago

Replying to @visakanv

if I were a multi-millionaire I would fund dumb things for shits and giggles – if I were a multi-billionaire I think I would do something like "The Alexandria Project". Recreate the Library of Alexandria but with the spirit of modern times. Accelerate science and literature

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Visakan Veerasamy@visakanv• over 5 years ago

Replying to @visakanv

hold my beer https://t.co/Z8yG1yTum5

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Visakan Veerasamy@visakanv• over 5 years ago

Replying to @visakanv

re: the Islamic Golden Age, Baghdad https://t.co/A8vkkc2iCU https://t.co/CTO037olDc

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Visakan Veerasamy@visakanv• over 5 years ago

Replying to @visakanv

Interesting bit from Bertrand Russell about the Dutch golden age, resonates with @DavidDeutschoxf's riffs about conjecture and criticism https://t.co/vfizFuZXYq

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Visakan Veerasamy@visakanv• over 5 years ago

Replying to @visakanv

Ludwig Wittgenstein and and Karl Popper were both born in Vienna within 3 years of each other (1889, 1902) My first thought was "wow, that's so lucky for Vienna", but then I'm reminded of @paulg's point about cities and ambition: https://t.co/f1iJqQsYVK https://t.co/fpzhvvbBmr

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Visakan Veerasamy@visakanv• over 5 years ago

Replying to @visakanv

oops yeah x_x https://t.co/xgQzCG40lH

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Visakan Veerasamy@visakanv• over 5 years ago

Replying to @visakanv

starting to notice a pattern here https://t.co/GwTPzg4H5d

Visakan Veerasamy@visakanv• over 5 years ago

"The heady atmosphere of openness, experiment and intellect produced some of the most significant statements in English modernism..." https://t.co/dbggAPa2E7 https://t.co/G2rvLHFMxT

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Visakan Veerasamy@visakanv• over 4 years ago

Replying to @visakanv

For future reference https://t.co/ZfZVgZTSU8

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james, the giant peach@JimmyRis• over 5 years ago

Replying to @visakanv

@visakanv We don't build big stuff no more.

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james, the giant peach@JimmyRis• over 5 years ago

Replying to @JimmyRis

@visakanv The @longnow Clock is big, and the closest thing to a pyramid we've got going right now

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james, the giant peach@JimmyRis• over 5 years ago

Replying to @JimmyRis

@visakanv @longnow And the decentralized internet folks are trying to build the library of Alexandria, but it's hard and money is tight. Our biggest undertaking are digital right now.

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james, the giant peach@JimmyRis• over 5 years ago

Replying to @JimmyRis

@visakanv @longnow Mount Rushmore is big! but: https://t.co/0srcRAQ2Tx

james, the giant peach@JimmyRis• about 6 years ago

What other projects of this scale has the US undertaken?

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james, the giant peach@JimmyRis• over 5 years ago

Replying to @JimmyRis

@visakanv @longnow Crazy Horse is even bigger! But has been on life support for decades, slowly getting worked on. https://t.co/2VIYldk4v7

james, the giant peach@JimmyRis• about 6 years ago

https://t.co/wYg99dMKF1

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james, the giant peach@JimmyRis• over 5 years ago

Replying to @JimmyRis

@visakanv @longnow Instead of patrons, we have @Patreon

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james, the giant peach@JimmyRis• over 5 years ago

Replying to @JimmyRis

@visakanv @longnow @Patreon https://t.co/HHOFlkXsLf

james, the giant peach@JimmyRis• about 7 years ago

@desantis @guruvan Decentralize the Medicis

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Malcolm Ocean 🏴‍☠️@Malcolm_Ocean• over 5 years ago

Replying to @visakanv

@visakanv https://t.co/kt4oCfc8Xi

Malcolm Ocean 🏴‍☠️@Malcolm_Ocean• over 5 years ago

@yashkaf I have a shortlist of people I want to buy out of their dayjobs so they can do interesting stuff full-time. That's the main reason I would like to have 10-100× as much money as I do now.

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QC@QiaochuYuan• over 5 years ago

Replying to @visakanv

@visakanv still waiting to find a guy who's willing to pay me to do whatever i want all the time, fingers crossed

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Visakan Veerasamy@visakanv• over 5 years ago

Replying to @QiaochuYuan

@QiaochuYuan technically I'm doing this right now on past-Visa's dime. very cool dude

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Jakeup@yashkaf• over 5 years ago

Replying to @visakanv

@visakanv The rich noble heirs of the 1400s didn't know how to create wealth but had cultivated aesthetic taste since birth. Today's billionaires are exactly the opposite. It's no coincidence that people who dream of crazy cathedrals and statues and astronomy aren't the ones making $$$.

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