Kyle Harper

But then the beauty of cultural evolution is that we can store that information.

And you and I don't have to figure out any of that.

We can go on to the next problem.

Because that's now been like collectively stored in the library of cultural evolution.

It's known.

You know, we don't even think about it most of the time until it's controversial.

But like what a blessing to, you know, to live after people like Jenner and Pasteur who figure that out.

You can't just drop that.

I'm going to let that one slide.

Okay.

I got some homework.

Yeah, yeah, but it's – we need to think more about like the computation that's happening.

Like what – you said it takes like 10 steps to figure out how to process this one particular kind of food, but I'm guessing like –

It is just really hard to figure out infectious disease.

It's a really, really steep mountain.

And once you get like up to a certain plateau, then the discoveries like come really, really fast.

They become systematic and they become more fundamental.

But it was really hard to get there.

You know, not that many societies –

really scaled it, not even within the societies that did.