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The Fires of History: Trolls Save the World

By Ian Gorrie
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$55.00
By Ian Gorrie
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A sardonic, deeply researched history of trolling from Socrates to AI. Trolling is not a bug in human civilization - it is the immune system. From Fermat's margin note to 4chan's raids, from Diogenes in the Athenian marketplace to ChatGPT's content filters, the pattern is always the same: one person says the unsayable, and the establishment loses its mind.

Book 1 of The Fires Series, examining how deliberate provocation has shaped civilization from ancient Athens to the age of artificial int...

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