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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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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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- Kyle Harper
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- Dwarkesh Podcast
02 / 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
03 / 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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- Kyle Harper
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- Dwarkesh Podcast
04 / 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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- Kyle Harper
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- Dwarkesh Podcast