make choices that impact everybody else and have, you know, long-term consequences downstream. Constantine 's conversion to Christianity, for example, right?Not something that anybody could have or did predict. Okay.
just screwed. So you get equality, but everyone's just equally poor. Constantine , what is your perspective on AI?I think the biggest threat to humanity if you talk about AI is actually the fact that you're creating something that's smarter than you. And if you're
and the irony is that at the time he was like uh Galileo and Francis Bacon and uh Constantine howkins and others he was very focused on the natural world infact he was there are a lot of ironies in this topic of Descartes bones focusing on his actual bones one of
And I also co-wrote the book with Connie and Tye. I'm Constantine Rousouli, a.k.a. Connie. I play Jack Dawson-- and one of the co-authors.
You probably are thinking that you're listening to Dean Karnazes speaking, correct? My name is actually Constantine Nicholas Karnazes. So that gives you some indication I'm Irish.
- Yeah. Yeah, that... I could not agree more. There are some problems with, - Yeah. Had Constantine chosen his side a little less wisely, the world's going to be very different.
- Yeah. Yeah, that... I could not agree more. There are some problems with, - Yeah, so Constantine is the guy who moved the capital of the empire from Rome to Constantinople, thereby giving a lot more focus to the east.
if you ask me to define its principal characteristics, it would probably be the tax system and the administration, the bureaucracy... ...of the later Roman Empire is that that comes from mostly Diocletian and Constantine 's reforms. - And Diocletian was in the 3rd century.
Diocletian, who rebuilds the state. Emperors drop the first citizen mask, this perception of the way, and we'll talk about this, the persona that's presented by the state. 312 AD, Constantine defeats Maxentius at the Milvian Bridge to become the sole ruler of the western half of the empire, and then founds Constantinople in 330 AD. East and West are split in 395 AD. Visigoths sack Rome in 410 AD. The West falls at 476 AD as the last Western
Other times, the people come out 'cause they hate the emperor, and they drag the emperor out and cut his nose off or - I mean, this is something you talk about. Constantine , as we'll get to him, is one of the most murderous leaders in all of human
- Yeah. Yeah, that... I could not agree more. There are some problems with, And that part of the world. And it was an incredibly effective religion, Once Constantine converted.
Other times, the people come out 'cause they hate the emperor, and they drag the emperor out and cut his nose off or Sophia, so the people gather in the church, or they gather in public spaces like the Forum of Constantine .
Other times, the people come out 'cause they hate the emperor, and they drag the emperor out and cut his nose off or mechanisms of that. - So if we can, before we go to Emperor Constantine the First and the founding of Constantinople, can we look at some
So you get equality, but everyone's just equally poor. Steve, uh, what do you think in terms of what Constantine said to me? What he said that he thinks there's civil unrest potential? Well, civil unrest is absolutely guaranteed.
this subject be as inflammatory for people? Would this be we're failing on all sorts of fronts and the UK is not a booming economy? You you've often said, Constantine , that we're spending too much money. Well, we're borrowing money now to pay off money we borrowed before.
rich, hard place to be kind of middle class and a very difficult place to be poor. Europe is kind of the other way around. And and so I think those are some of the differences in productivity as well. I'll agree with Constantine that America does have that can do attitude and they also do have the attitude that failure is the first step on the ladder of success. Okay, there is
Voila, you've turned a relationship of violent inequality into a relation where the victims are running around feeling inadequate all the time, making terrible apologies for themselves So you get that but gradually the empires come to a crisis, they start crumbling, they adopt the world religions, Confucianism in China, Ashoka adopts Buddhism, Constantine
presented by the state. 312 AD, Constantine defeats Maxentius at the Milvian Bridge to become the sole ruler of the western half of the empire, and then founds Constantinople in 330 AD. East and West are split in 395 AD. Visigoths sack Rome in 410 AD. The West falls at 476 AD as the last Western emperor is deposed. And then we sort of focus more on the East Roman Empire with 527. In the 6th century, Justinian's reign.