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Samuel Pepys
“The example I use in the book is the very famous diary of Samuel Pepys, who's this incredible figure and is very close to Newton and that social group and his name is on the first edition of the Principia.”
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01 / evaluation
If anything, the demand is equally or perhaps even more important because if there's not a mechanism, if there's not institutions that let you turn this kind of exploitation into cash flow, the institution's not gonna go very far.
“If anything, the demand is equally or perhaps even more important because if there's not a mechanism, if there's not institutions that let you turn this kind of exploitation into cash flow, the institution's not gonna go very far.”
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- Kyle Harper
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- Dwarkesh Podcast
02 / evaluation
In fact, it obscures the importance of modern slavery because modern slavery is uniquely important and it's uniquely tied up with certain kinds of market exchange and certain kinds of production, certain kinds of racial ideologies.
“In fact, it obscures the importance of modern slavery because modern slavery is uniquely important and it's uniquely tied up with certain kinds of market exchange and certain kinds of production, certain kinds of racial ideologies.”
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- Kyle Harper
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- Dwarkesh Podcast
03 / belief
I think there's no doubt that pre-industrial populations, and again, populations—so you still have your Isaac Newtons, who whatever infected him as a kid, didn't slow him down—but at the population level, I think there's no doubt that not only were pre-industrial populations shorter, this is just a total fact that we know from their bones, but they probably also, on average, had a lower distribution of cognitive abilities.
“I think there's no doubt that pre-industrial populations, and again, populations—so you still have your Isaac Newtons, who whatever infected him as a kid, didn't slow him down—but at the population level, I think there's no doubt that not only were pre-industrial populations shorter, this is just a total fact that we know from their bones, but they probably also, on average, had a lower distribution of cognitive abilities.”
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04 / belief
On slavery in particular, I think actually that's one of the strong suits of the movie.
“On slavery in particular, I think actually that's one of the strong suits of the movie.”
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- Kyle Harper
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- Dwarkesh Podcast
05 / belief
If you were from on high to design self-sustaining innovation, I think you would want to bring those elements into proximity.
“If you were from on high to design self-sustaining innovation, I think you would want to bring those elements into proximity.”
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06 / belief
Of the greater Greek world or individual city-states like Athens? We think of Athens as being a couple 100,000 people.
“Of the greater Greek world or individual city-states like Athens? We think of Athens as being a couple 100,000 people.”
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07 / preference
It's a deep question and what I think we don't think enough about is how, in a really fundamental way, hard are some problems to solve?
“It's a deep question and what I think we don't think enough about is how, in a really fundamental way, hard are some problems to solve?”
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08 / evaluation
I mean, first thing, it's important, I think you were starting to get at this, that there's never a generation of humans that has the opportunity to make this choice once and for all, like, should we stay hunting mammoths or should we become sedentary farmers with basically torturous dentistry and die by diarrhea?
“I mean, first thing, it's important, I think you were starting to get at this, that there's never a generation of humans that has the opportunity to make this choice once and for all, like, should we stay hunting mammoths or should we become sedentary farmers with basically torturous dentistry and die by diarrhea?”
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- Dwarkesh Podcast
09 / evaluation
COVID-19 was impossible to contain because it took several days before you really presented with clinical illness.
“COVID-19 was impossible to contain because it took several days before you really presented with clinical illness.”
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- Kyle Harper
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- Dwarkesh Podcast
10 / evaluation
In the case of the plague, if you were really knowledgeable about the basics of ecology and evolution of disease, you would never be like, "I think that every now and then a rodent disease from Central Asia is gonna wipe out half of the continent".
“In the case of the plague, if you were really knowledgeable about the basics of ecology and evolution of disease, you would never be like, "I think that every now and then a rodent disease from Central Asia is gonna wipe out half of the continent".”
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11 / commitment
Because we need to understand how the earth system works, how the climate system works in order to be able to model what's happening, we need an empirical record of what the climate has done.
“Because we need to understand how the earth system works, how the climate system works in order to be able to model what's happening, we need an empirical record of what the climate has done.”
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12 / evaluation
I love Pliny the Elder's encyclopedia, but if you look in the big picture, the contribution that the Roman Empire makes to our knowledge of how nature works and then the applied technology that comes out of that is really pathetic for five, 600 years.
“I love Pliny the Elder's encyclopedia, but if you look in the big picture, the contribution that the Roman Empire makes to our knowledge of how nature works and then the applied technology that comes out of that is really pathetic for five, 600 years.”
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13 / recommendation
The example I use in the book is the very famous diary of Samuel Pepys, who's this incredible figure and is very close to Newton and that social group and his name is on the first edition of the Principia.
“The example I use in the book is the very famous diary of Samuel Pepys, who's this incredible figure and is very close to Newton and that social group and his name is on the first edition of the Principia.”
- Speaker
- Kyle Harper
- Publisher
- Dwarkesh Podcast