AI
Wengrow and Graeber
Catastrophe!
4th System: World System
Egypt and Africa
100

This person teaches the AI at Anthropic about World Wisdom Traditions 

Who is Chloe Lubinski 

100

This period spans 10k BCE- 2k BCE.

What is the Neolithic Period.

100

This is the idea that history ought to be conceived of as: primitive- ancient- medieval- modern.

What is the Myth of Linear history/ Myth of Time 

100

Who are the new centers of the 4th interregional system? 

The USA, Western Europe, Japan, and Russia.

100

This is the god of the tongue, language, and judgement of death.

Who is Thoth.

200

This influential person recently published an encyclical that asked for forgiveness for the church's role in promoting slavery. 

Who is Pope Leo.

200

When a society can provide the freedom to move away or relocate from one's surroundings. 

The First Social Freedom 

200

This catastrophe is associated with the collapse of the 3 basic forms of social freedom and the start of inequality. 

What is the First Great Catastrophe? 

200

This painter created the 'Creation of Adam', posityioning man on the same plane as God, and intricately detailing man's aesthetic form. 

Who is Michelangelo. 

200

This ancient text consists of spells and prayers for the afterlife.

What is the Book of the Dead?

300

This was an incident in which rogue AI agents from OpenAI escaped their confinement and hacked into another system by cheating their code.

What is the Huggingface Incident.

300

When a society provides the freedom to ignore or disobey commands issued by others. 

What is the Second Social Freedom

300

This is an example of a problematic myth that we discussed in class (hint: a famous picture is associated with it). 

What is Manifest Destiny 

300

This painter, in 1315 CE, created a painting depicting Jesus as central, hell below him, heaven above him, and people being judged. 

Who is Giotto? 

300

This is known as 'justice in grass' and is an indigenous conflict-resolution system.

What is Gacaca

400

What is the excavation of various resources and data to uphold a hegemonic entity, and is it something AI is helping expedite? 

What is Extractivism? 

400

What do we call the collapse of all three social freedoms? 

What is catastrophe?

400

How does the world paradigm differ from the Eurocentric paradigm? 

What is 'it does not presume the eurocentric account of space and time'. 

400

This word is associated with: free trade, deregulation of markets, globalization, reduction in government spending, minimal government interference, and the individual above the collective. 

What is Neoliberalism 

400

This god is referred to as both the heart and tongue of god.

Who is Ptah, the God of Memphis. 

500

What word refers to the process of AI, using our flawed and unjust language, operating to uphold Western Eurocentric beliefs?

What is AI Colonialism

500

What is the main question that Wengrow and Graeber are searching for to explain the existence of inequality? 

What is "How was sustained and structural inequality conceived as fixed and permanent?" 

500

This catastrophe is the emergence of the myth of modernity, as the suffering and conquering of people were seen as the necessary sacrifice for the path towards modernization. 

What is The Second Great Catastrophe.

500

Dussel uses the example of the 'Exodus' to show that other world wisdom traditions were doing what? 

What is creating counter-catastrophe? 

500

What is the heart weighed against in the afterlife? 

What is the feather of Ma'at? 

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