Joseph Henrich

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

Right.

So you don't want that.

But if you had an immigration policy that distributed people, and in a high trust society, you benefit by being higher trust because you can do things like collaborate and start companies and stuff, which you have to be high trust to do that.

Otherwise, you don't do it in a very effective way.

So there is a pressure for low trust people to become more high trust.

But if you're in mostly high trust people, there's not an incentive for you to move down.

Um, so in social interactional traits are different than, than things like food types.

Yeah.

I mean my sense is it replicates quite well.

So we published our paper in 2010 and in late 20-aughts, Armin Falk is an economist and a bunch of others, Ankenbecker, Ben Ankey published a paper where they measured economic preferences in 80,000 people around the world.

And that just showed big variation in things like patients, various kinds of reciprocity, altruism, so the kinds of things we would expect.

And then other large-scale projects have similarly shown lots of variation.

Well, that's always a concern, and it's especially a concern when you're studying hunter-gatherers because a lot of the hunter-gatherers that are left in the world today are places where agriculturalists couldn't easily move to.

So that's something we're thinking about all the time.

The ways around that are to go to places where agriculturalists didn't go or couldn't go.

So we have a lot of good ethnographic history on people in Australia.

And then we have the Arctic populations, which, you know, big sections of Paleolithic Europe were probably kind of like Northern Canada is today.

So at least environmentally, it's not crazy because, you know, Ice Age Europe.

And places like the Aleutian Islands, the west coast of California, we have lots of ethnographic evidence.

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