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Malleus Maleficarum
The fifteenth-century witch-hunting manual that ran to twenty-eight editions, and the essay's counterweight to Luther in the account of what the printing press enabled.
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The essay pairs it with Luther deliberately: the same presses that broke a millennium of religious monopoly also produced the intellectual scaffolding for tens of thousands of executions, mostly of women, and the two were simultaneous rather than sequential.
That structure, flourishing and horror arriving together on the same technology, is the analogy the essay draws to AI.
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