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My take was generally: the loss of Alexandria's collection represents a calamitous loss to our collective culture.

(But my knowledge of Alexandria extends only to episodes of "COSMOS" and "Connections").

It's a fair point. I honed in on "the burning of" (original comment) versus more generally thinking in terms of "the loss of", because parent context here is "AI companies destroy…".

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