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The Importance of Intellectual History
When I was younger, this made it seem to me like there's just low-hanging fruit everywhere to improve everything. As I've grown older, what I've realized is that identifying these kinds of problems is often like 10 or even 100 times easier than correcting them. And so I've just updated on, yes, you can identify all kinds of inadequacies in human civilization, but how do you actually solve them? That's really the challenge. Not to say it's always easy, but that is the easy part.