Dwarkesh Patel

They're all doing stuff that we would say does not matter.

But A era is always wrong about what ideals and what circulation and what changes are the really big ones and are always much, much more worried about, oh, my God, the prince of Spain, which princess is he going to marry?

This is going to determine whether Spain is or isn't annexed by Germany.

This is the most important thing that has ever happened the entire stream of time.

And people are like, we've discovered another continent.

They're like, we don't care.

We don't want to know who's going to marry Charles.

Science-related stuff, yeah.

And even he had these ideas about reincarnation that were... So I think probably the number executed for atheism would be about 100.

There are 12 total trials of scientists about science.

Galileo is one, Giordano Bruno is one, Giordano Bruno is the only one executed.

Of those 12 trials, only three were convicted.

And hundreds of thousands of trials for Judaizing, which is theoretically contaminating Christianity with Jewish thought, and all of these other minutiae of oppression and segregation of populations.

Executions for paganism, meaning practicing your indigenous religion in a colonized space.

Hundreds of thousands of executions for that, one for science.

That's right, for the Lutheranism.

Yeah.

Milton of Paradise Lost Fame wrote our first big defense of the free press.

And this is in the moment in the early 1600s when England doesn't yet have systematic censorship law.

It has ad hoc, hey, this book is bad, but it doesn't have systematic, you must submit all books to a censor, the way the Catholic world does by that point.