Dwarkesh Patel
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first heard Feb 2024
last heard 17 Sep
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for it to be the case that we don't see relative movement of the stars to the Earth.
The only possible explanation is that the stars are so far away that it is just incomprehensible and implausible.
And so the heliocentric theory was dismissed.
And the reason, what I'm trying to ask is what is the equivalent of like, oh, for this to work, the stars have to be so far away that it's inconceivable, where like actually the stars are so far away.
And maybe we should adopt the implausible implication that this theory gives us.
Yeah.
And it also seems significant that different groups of humans at this time were capable of adopting Stone Age technology.
Once one group had figured it out, the genetic difference between different human lineages was not so big that you could not show people how to use it.
And then we know you're talking about how there's no fixed differences between modern humans and the humans 50,000 years ago.
Are there any, do we know if there's any fixed differences between the people 50,000 years ago and the people 300,000 years ago?
I think there are.
Other than obviously these...
anatomically modern, cognitively modern humans exist by the beginning of the Middle Stone Age and before we're breeding with this
ancient group of Africans or breeding with Neanderthals.
Interesting.
Interesting.
But we don't know what exactly happens, if anything, between 200,000 years ago and 50,000 years ago that goes from just anatomical modernity to behavior.
Interesting.
Cool.
Thanks for the digression.
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