College seems to me to be geographically structured to help you make friends. I remember reading one study that shows basically repeated random interactions with the same person will tend to develop towards making friends with them organically. Well how does college work? You take classes in your major, where you will meet other people with a common interest. Also you might live in the dorms, eat at the mess hall, etc where you're also going to bump into the same people again and again.
Someone whose day to day existence was mostly under their own control, so long as they stayed tied to the land and produced. Both slavery and serfdom are terrible, but they are not the same.
From the perspective of industry though, serfdom is a purely agricultural institution.
They couldn't be sold. They had rights. In general the classic school hierarchy of emperor, vassals, valvassori (dunno in english), valvassini (also don't know in english), serfs has been debunked.
Idk lots of civilizations had slaves (I almost wrote ancient, but slavery didn’t go away until less than 200 years ago, and human trafficking is still a big issue). But compare Rome with say the Spartans, who had an insanely big slave class, but who didn’t produce the same types of things as Rome.
Wasn’t there an OpenAI paper where they showed that MM multiplication with the numerical imprecision of floats was enough to get general function learning?
One almost certainly does not need anything else ... unless what you want is big piles of investor cash, a Scrooge McDuck swimming pool quantity of investor cash - then you need to call whatever maths you do AI.
