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Humans didn't invent agriculture (sopuli.xyz)

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

How to tell someone is reading Sapiens.

Still, insane that "science/technology improvements" did not improve happienes at all. Just shifted the standards.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago

it's called "co-evolution"

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Haha. I'm reading Sapiens right now, too

[–] [email protected] 0 points 4 months ago (3 children)

I've never actually read any Harari books for some reason. Is his stuff generally "reliable"?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago (1 children)

r/askhistorians on reddit always rails about it being, paraphrasing: too cut and dry for such complicated topics. I've the first half of the first one, and I don't disagree, but I'm not a historian. Reductionism is definitely in play, and there's certainly a narrative bias in there for entertainment.

It seems about as reliable as Isaac Asimov's essays (as published in The Road to Infinity, or similar).

[–] [email protected] 0 points 4 months ago (2 children)

Thanks. So, interesting and generally reliable, but claims should be treated with caution?

[–] [email protected] 0 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Yep.

When a historian complains that something is reductionist, I usually ask them "what is the temperature of the air in the room right now." I don't mind reductionism, particularly when ingesting materials from outside my field of expertise -- because I don't have time to become an expert in every field :)

[–] [email protected] 0 points 4 months ago (1 children)

I usually ask them “what is the temperature of the air in the room right now.”

What mean? I can't brain good today

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Isn't this Michael Pollan's theory?

That plants make themselves Delicious/useful/whatever so we'll use them more?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago

Yup! The Botany of Desire. Good read.

Focuses on how apples, potatoes, tulips, and cannabis have all been vastly successful at being spread by humans because we find them useful.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

Humans are an unfortunate by-product of the fungus' colonisation of the planet. As soon as they've tricked us into heating the planet enough to melt the poles, their conquest will be complete.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Humans dont invent anything, they discover it.

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