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Alison Gopnik on Child Development, Elderhood, Caregiving, and A.I.

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The Cultural Revolution Is a Great Human Superpower

Cultural revolution is one of our most distinctive forms of intelligence. Each generation can take all the information that previous generations have discovered and use it themselves without having to rediscover it. That's like a great human superpower. And there's a very good case to be made that those cultural technologies just time and again have had really deep transformative effects on society.

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