a very simple and yet undeniably correct understanding of morality would dramatically improve the mental and material condition of humanity.
In other words the best unused ideas to improve human well being exist where the instincts driving our moral sentiments tell us they shouldn’t.
Julius retweeted
This is so wrong. The French state would steal British steam engines and other industrial machines and then freely gift them to French industrialists. For 50 years it never worked, for two reasons 1. Lack of engineers to affordably fix/maintain the machines
The long term and incremental success of leftist intellectual movements and ideas are a manifestation of human nature combined with other simple natural phenomena. No leftist ideas or movements are particularly consequential.
Throughout history, humanity has been becoming more liberal or left-wing and yet there’s never been a good explanation as to why?youtube.com/watch?v=_-NhPHOj…
"human brain size reduction was surprisingly recent, occurring in the last 3,000 years" We suggest our analysis supports the hypothesis that the recent decrease in brain size may instead result from the externalization of knowledge and advantages of group-level decision-making





