Nick Pell
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6,131 appearances
17 recordings
1 series
first heard Jan 2025
last heard 13 Sep
Nick Pell’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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It's not that we're not competitive at all.
Clearly, human beings are competitive.
We're both competitive and cooperative at the same time.
But simple dominance is not enough to get much done.
In fact, if you study human history, you will quickly see that the less kind of naked, gross dominance we have, the greater our accomplishments become.
Huh.
Really?
I I don't know.
Is is that the case?
Yes.
Absolutely and demonstrably.
The Egyptians never put anybody on the moon.
Oh, yeah.
Well there's the technological issue in play here, but like in the classical world, technology doesn't advance very much.
Because like, how do you get things done?
You beat somebody until they do it.
Ah, I
That's it.
That's how you get I mean, we can talk about this on the on the slavery episode.
For almost all of human history, how you get things done is you grab somebody and beat them until they do it.
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