Interesting side - note. Henrich makes much of your point about the supply of old people and how important prestige is within a culture. To paraphrase: you do what old or prestigious people do even i… (View Post)

Agreed on both your posts. I phrased my first poorly - it should have read "our collective social and cultural intelligence is at least as important a causal factor as genetic mutations in our e… (View Post)

Agreed, but he pushes the argument further - with some frankly fascinating anecdotes as well as references to lots of studies - to claim that culture and genes co-influence one another (rather than j… (View Post)

I always had you down as a little more kinky than that Casino. Ah well, you live and learn. (View Post)

Amongst myriad other services to humanity, I think those paragraphs so neatly encapsulate the supposedly undefinable 'woke' that it should end all debate on said definition on this august site foreve… (View Post)