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EP 70: Tim Urban (Author, "Wait But Why") on Wokeness, AI Girlfriends and Humans Living to 150 Years Old

The Logan Bartlett Show

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The Cognitive Revolution

If human history is a thousand, if we've been around for a thousand page book, 950 of those pages, that's 95% of the book. So again, maybe there's a cognitive revolution, but not, it doesn't, it's not enough alone to make the change. There was kind of a, there was a dormant massive thing that was like, that could happen, the potential had woken up, but it couldn't come together for a long time. The printing press is so cool, should you think about it, because I was hearing something, this is so recent, like the Lincoln Douglas debates was like this important moment.

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