Dwarkesh

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

Ancient.

Going forward to the future a little bit.

Yeah.

Speaking of future technology, maybe the one that's more relevant than AI is synthetic biology.

And there's a worry that you can potentially create diseases which...

Maybe the evolutionary gradient is one that is, like, not catastrophic, where diseases are incentivized to be transmissible but keep you at a chronic level of infection that doesn't necessarily kill you immediately.

Actually, it's interesting why the bubonic plague diverges from that selection pressure, which maybe you can answer, but...

Yeah.

What do you think about the potential that with synthetic biology people can make diseases that have the transmissibility of measles but also the deadliness of something like Ebola?

Is that – given your understanding of biology and whatever, is that – how plausible is that?

So can I ask a question about that?

Why is it the case – because there's diseases that hijack the flea's mind or ants' minds or something.

Are there –

Like, why isn't there a disease that makes humans zombies?

Is it just the human brain is, like, so complicated that it's, like— Let me come back to this.

Let me come back to this.

And then what is the reason that you have these 1,000-year cycles, basically, where

Why is it not 500 years?

Why is it not 10 years?

Why is it like – what causes it to go dormant?

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