Joseph Henrich

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

Yeah, I am worried about that because just the destruction of languages.

So we're losing languages left and right.

English is a particular form that you don't find in lots of languages, so that's just an example of the kind of cultural diversity we're losing.

Yeah, so that's definitely a worry.

I do think that we're getting new variants.

So if you look at – so Japan adopts a lot of weird institutions.

But it's really creating a new third unique thing.

It's got a bunch of weird elements, but –

You know, Japanese law, despite being the same as the U.S., operates very differently.

So unlike Americans, Japanese don't tend to sue each other and they tend to use mediation and things like that, even though the superficial law is pretty similar.

So I do think there is creation of novelty, which could be useful.

But, yeah, in general, I worry about the loss of novelty.

Yeah.

And I also should say that I think that the sort of impersonal world of impersonal institutions and weird psychology is quite fragile.

So, for example, in the U.S.

and rural areas, you see moral universality declining over the last since 2008.

This is based on John Heights, your morals dot org data.

And so there's an increasing difference in the morality of urban areas versus rural areas in the U.S.

Hmm.

Well, I definitely take declining fertility pretty seriously because especially if you're like a collective brain guy like me, just having fewer people is going to be a big problem.

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