Dwarkesh Patel

And often they would have a cheap blue cover.

You have seen this color before.

This is the color of laundry lint.

Because fundamentally, laundry lint is what paper is.

You take rags of old clothes.

You put them in water.

You beat them until they become a pulp.

You skim it out with a sieve.

Laundry lint is what rag paper is.

And if you don't bleach it, it's this sort of generic blue-gray color, which is the average color that human beings wear.

That's a copy of The Gentleman's Magazine, another example of technology taking a leap forward in the 18th century.

When they invented the newspaper, they immediately had the problem of, oh, no, newspapers contradict each other.

We don't know what's true.

We have to fact-check stuff.

Oh, that one has a great foldout.

I think there's a procession or something.

So instead of photographs, we have this fancy, here is what everyone was wearing at the state funeral.

Very exciting.

So...

your laundry lint, if you don't bleach it, remains the color that it on average was.