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SCOUT· 58%57m·2026-08-13·ScienceThrough a Glass, Darkly: Part One
Suspicious Minds: AI and the Apocalypse · 10
Eight thousand years ago, in a settlement called Çatalhöyük in what is now central Turkey, somebody sat down with a piece of obsidian and began to grind volcanic glass. Black, brittle, sharp enough to cut skin, it doesn’t occur naturally anywhere near there; the closest volcanoes are a hundred and twenty miles east.…
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