Joseph Henrich

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Dwarkesh Podcast · Joseph Henrich — Humans defeated smarter species with cultural evolution · 12 Mar 2025 podcast

So, but there was no education 8,000 years ago.

Yeah, it's correlated.

Yeah.

But then the question is, is we don't know what goes into that, right?

Is that actually computational software?

Or, I mean, people do well in school because they stick to it and they can sit in the same place for long periods of time.

Well, there are IQ.

So there are polygenic scores for IQ.

I think they actually did that one as well.

Like you said, it's correlated with education.

And yeah, but that doesn't have anything that the things that go into giving you an IQ, I mean, the correlation between brain size and IQ is only about, well, across populations, it's 0.24.

So it's not very big.

So the other thing is, I mean, IQ is massively misunderstood.

So the way to think about IQ, which has been going up over the 20th century by quite a bit.

So if you rescale modern scores to 1900, it's about 70.

It's called the Flynn effect.

I think that those are cognitive abilities for navigating the institutional world that we've constructed.

And a huge mistake would be to assume that those are the right cognitive abilities for the next century.

So it'll be a different constellation.

If you study, we study herders and cognitive abilities of herders in Northern Namibia.

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