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The Great Simplification with Nate Hagens

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Nature vs Nurture - Is That Really the Standard Social Science Model?

Nick Bostrom: When I was getting my PhD there was a lot of debate on nature versus nurture. Is that like it totally understood now or do we still kind of have the standard social science model of the 80s and 90s that blank slate? He says he feels vindicated because what's happened now is by analogy to the immune system. The innate component, richly modular, evolved by genetic evolution does not change during your lifetime as a species,. It's amazing, amazing collection of adaptations to fight diseases. That looks a lot like evolutionary psychology in its early days.

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