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HomeGrown Humans - Daniel Schmachtenberger - Existential Risk

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The Real Poltic Assessment of Lead in Gasoline

Lead in gasoline is estimated to have taken a billion IQ points off the world and made us 4x more violent holistically. And so then we get people doing social science and doing this real politic assessment of humans are too dumb and mean for things like democracy to work or things like nice things to work. It's just genetics where nasty chimps is not fucking nasty chimps and genetics. We take something that you have to mind that would never occur in the biosphere and figure out how to burn it and aerosolize it so that it's in everybody's breathing air that makes us both dumber and meaner.

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