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Ep: 99 David Deutsch‘s ”The Beginning of Infinity” - a retrospective in 99 minutes
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Evolution Is Not Fixed by Genetics
For most of human history, people were using their creativity in order to simply keep things the same. In a dynam society, the way to stand out is to innovate and to be creative. If criticism is not valued by a society, it will go extinct. The parable of the easter islanders is salient here. They built great monuments for no more purpose than appeasing their superstitions. So they went extinct. Over and over again, lost civilizations are testament to not solving their problems in time. We are unique because we value criticism. But it is a tradition of criticism. And so we have to be careful that the institute s that preserved that tradition, likewise, are protected.
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