The Students

@0xthestudents · Twitter · 2026-08-28 18:56 UTC

Will Technocapital Outlive Our Civilization? @SamoBurja and @wolftivy discuss the forces raising our civilization vs the forces pulling it down. Is techno-industrial progress made of social and intellectual components which take it down when they go, or can it weather decay? 0:00 — Intro 2:24 — The favelaworld future 9:00 — Competition and accommodation 17:04 — Getting stuck at 1st world development 22:18 — How much intelligence does the consumer economy even need? 25:16 — The singularitarians will lose control of AI 28:30 — The bull case for AI 31:38 — Institutional decline vs technological progress 37:08 — Technocapital: Historical force or mere ideology? 49:10 — The most technologically transformative war in history 55:21 — Can the industrial escape political decline? 1:04:17 — Exhausting human capital 1:07:10 — Forgetting how to do science