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"Technological progress comes not from some Socratic thinkery, but from a Darwinian tinkery."

time to burn my degree

"Unfortunately, this good hockey stick has an evil twin, which is the crisis of the Anthropocene."

WILD WILD WILD

"Modern humans have no instinct for the control or ignition of fire, and yet our puny intestines, unsatisfactory jaw muscles, and small mouths make us dependent on cooking to survive."

WHAT'S going on rn

"it is implausible to impute full economic rationality to such relatively small-brained creatures"

yo calm downnn bro i only just started reading 😭😭😭