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28 Sept 2022 Dwarkesh Podcast Tyler Cowen - Talent, Collapse, & Pessimism of Sex
“We don't know why. But don't assume that just because it happened once that means you always rebuild.”
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- Tyler Cowen
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- 28 Sept 2022
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- Dwarkesh Podcast
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…We did emerge from feudalism, right? So if it happened once, isn't that example enough? We don’t know! There’s like–– hundreds of thousands of years of human history where we seem to make diddly squat progress. We don't know why. But don't assume that just because it happened once that means you always rebuild. I don't think it does. Right. If it's not just the idea of everything being laid in space, what would it take for our descendants to be able to recover industrial civilization?…
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