Dwarkesh

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1,722 appearances 5 recordings 1 series first heard Apr 2025 last heard 25 Nov

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Dwarkesh Podcast · Why Rome actually fell: plagues, slavery, & ice age — Kyle Harper · 24 Apr 2025 podcast

I don't want to say it.

Yeah, when I had Joseph Henricon, you know, one of the things he discusses is if you look at – I mean, cultural evolution has figured out some remarkable things, right?

If you look at the cuisines of different cultures, apparently the spices they use match the antimicrobial and antifungal properties you need in that particular biome.

At the same time, you're like watching – I mean, reading that part of the book, I'm like, okay, I get in some cases they just genuinely did not have the resources to invest in public health and so forth.

But, like, come on.

I don't know if I should mention some of these things as well.

But, like, you're just, like, sleeping in your own vomit and so forth.

Like, why didn't Cultural Revolution or some, like, foresight just be like, hey, like, this we can sort of, like, do without?

Yeah.

There's this great blog post by the author Slime Old Time Old where he's discussing – Wait.

Author what?

You don't know internet culture, you know.

There's a bunch of weirdos out there.

I live in a different world.

Sorry.

What did you call it?

Sly multi.

Anyways, they have a blog post about scurvy and why it took so long to discover.

And he was discussing all these sort of like – it's sort of like an epistemic conundrum because you can like use lime and you realize like, oh, it works.

But then if you use lemons, which have much less vitamin C or maybe it's the other way around, they just don't work much –

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