Joseph Henrich

And this is interesting because they're probably more valuable to each other when they're more culturally different.

But that's then the face time and being in the same place is even more valuable.

So that's the kind of direction I'm going.

And I also – I'm not satisfied that – I still think that there should be exactly what you said, which is that the internet should have caused more innovation.

I'm just not satisfied that we've fully determined the best way to figure that out.

Yeah.

Right.

So, I mean, I definitely, sometimes I'm interpreted as saying that there are no, like, genetic differences among individuals.

Definitely think there are genetic differences among individuals that affect their likelihood.

But I think when we take the individual, we often import into our thinking about them the person's life history.

So, for example, Einstein, when he was a patent clerk, so he wasn't succeeding as an academic, he and his friends got together in something called the Olympian Academy, they called themselves, which was just a group of like five people who would get together and they would read the interesting books at the time.

And if you look at the books that they read, and historians have done a lot of work on this, all the major ideas that go into special relativity were read and processed by the Olympia Academy before they do it.

So the idea that, you know, people think that time is relative.

Well, people were kind of talking about that.

And they were talking about multiple dimensions.

And like Henri Poincaré at the same time.

comes up with the same equation as Einstein, but he doesn't give it as radical an interpretation as Einstein does.

He was thinking of the equations as kind of fudge factors, trying to make the math work.

So there was a almost simultaneous invention of special relativity, and the ideas were all circulating.

And Einstein happened to be in a place which allowed him to put all those things together.