Episode Details
| Title | Joseph Henrich – Why Humans Survived and Smarter Species Didn't |
|---|---|
| Date | 3/12/2025 |
| Podcast | Dwarkesh Podcast ↗ |
Key Insights
Bullish:
- 🟢 $COLLECTIVEINTELLIGENCE - Joseph strongly advocates for collective intelligence, emphasizing that humans evolved to think and solve problems in groups rather than individually. He argues that traditional psychological experiments focusing on individual problem-solving may not accurately reflect how humans naturally operate in societies.
- “We evolved to think in collectives. There's this assumption that psychologists have had that understand human decision making and how our minds solve problems is that we should put people in by themselves in experiments and see how they do. But real human societies, hunter gatherers, they actually work in groups.” - Joseph (1:51:43)
- 🟢 $CULTURALDIVERSITY - 🔒
- 🟢 $COLLECTIVEBRAIN - 🔒
- 🟢 $FACETOFACE - 🔒
- 🟢 $AICOGNITION - 🔒
- 🟢 $PRONATALISM - 🔒
Bearish:
- 🔻 $IQ - 🔒
- 🔻 $MONOCULTURE - 🔒