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Tim Urban on the path to AGI and trends in tech history | E1779
This Week in Startups
The 999 Pages of Human History
"I think your ability to frame stuff is like your superpower," he says. "If you wrote all of human history into a thousand page book, each page covering 250 years, then what does that look like? And the answer is that almost the whole 950 pages of that book are hunter-gatherers everywhere." The industrial revolution started on page 1000 and has been accelerating paradigm shifts ever since. 'We often like assume that if we're living in a special time, that must be naive because everyone thinks that'
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