Dwarkesh Patel

You then immerse them in water and you beat them violently using a mill for a very long time until they become a pulp.

You then scoop that pulp up on a screen and the fibers lock together.

It's a sort of a slurry that looks like grits.

And you lift up the slurry and then it locks together into a sheet of paper.

So it's not as cheap as just growing papyrus and it's much more labor.

You have to build a paper mill.

So if parchment we think of as like a leather jacket...

And papyrus we think of as like buying a head of lettuce.

This is somewhere in between like buying – what's in between a leather jacket and – This feels like a weird trick question.

This is somewhere in between like getting yourself a dozen frozen prepackaged meals.

Right.

Right, which are complex and have many ingredients and a lot of industry went into producing the actual packaging, et cetera, more so than a head of lettuce.

Yeah.

So it's 10 times as expensive, but it's still a tenth as much as the leather jacket.

So, paper comes in.

People are very wary of paper.

Paper is clearly not as strong as parchment.

Parchment is really tough stuff.

People start using paper for rough drafts, letters.

Sketchbooks, when you're doing the sketch before doing a painting, you might do that on paper.