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Both view AI as a powerful tool for skilled thinkers but a potential source of intellectual passivity for others, raising the question of how people can preserve their agency and sense of purpose as AI becomes part of everyday intellectual work.
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Modern humans, not Neanderthals, were the fearsome party in their encounters with archaic humans.
Today, it seems more likely that it was we who were the monsters out of the dark, the demons about which Neanderthal mothers would tell their little-ones.
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All the evidence, both ancient and modern, points to a tiny non-African ancestry population between 50 and 60,000 years ago, a few thousand individuals at most
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Both view AI as a powerful tool for skilled thinkers but a potential source of intellectual passivity for others, raising the question of how people can preserve their agency and sense of purpose as AI becomes part of everyday intellectual work.
Jerry Z. Muller: academia today, intellectual history in the past and AI in the future Said 24 Sept 2026
Modern humans, not Neanderthals, were the fearsome party in their encounters with archaic humans.
Today, it seems more likely that it was we who were the monsters out of the dark, the demons about which Neanderthal mothers would tell their little-ones.
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The population of modern humans that expanded out of Africa around 50,000-60,000 years ago numbered only a few thousand individuals at most.
All the evidence, both ancient and modern, points to a tiny non-African ancestry population between 50 and 60,000 years ago, a few thousand individuals at most
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- they're just doing it to show that you are the shit of the earth. let's keep it real. small people who assert their dominance by performative bullshit. lol 17 Oct 2026
- look I love a good steak but u are just being a asshole 🤷🏾♂️ 17 Oct 2026
- so often in Muslim nations dhimmis gotta know their place… This is your future kufar 😂 17 Oct 2026
- and the far right don’t like browns; but here both of us are 😂 17 Oct 2026
- a lot of this stupid right-wing christians don't seem to be aware of heterodox religious cults and their existence in the USA from the 19th-century on. "spiritualism" was once very large, and transcendentalism was too. 17 Oct 2026
- the generic distance btwn el stayed and his South Indian wife is higher than with a European 16 Oct 2026
- im way darker than zohran and that never stopped me. These neuroses are such bullshit 16 Oct 2026
- the 300kya admixture pop A:B is 80:20 ratio. ok, if the divergence >1mya how come there wasn't more purification B? reich and others argue neanderthal admixture purified from 10 or even 20 to 2% but gene distance is smaller what am i missing? @iosif_lazaridis @DanTabin ? 16 Oct 2026
- well, indian hate so normalized that even immigrants are assimilating! hey, at least you wouldn't notice him walking down the street! now that's real assimilation 16 Oct 2026
- also, when ppl say people help ppl of their "own caste," this operationalizes as jati. a brahmin from north india and a brahmin from south india are not the same caste, tho same varna status. there are thousands of jati. 15 Oct 2026
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- good points. red = pop A = stem 1 fwiw. i think we need paleoclimate ppl to up their game; red/pop A/stem 1 went through an intense bottleneck. how? why? i think the sahara plays a role (and separates pop B from pop A) 15 Oct 2026
- like with islam/muslims distinguish btwn hinduism/hindus. hating ppl is kind of bad for your soul, but you can say whatever you want about ideas evangelicals have been saying hindus worship the devil or demons forever. even ex-hindu converts think this. doesn't lead to violence 15 Oct 2026
- i just say what i think is true. i guess it pisses people off. but so what? i'm not here to make ppl happy 🤷🏾♂️ (the only annoying thing is when ppl assume some secret agenda or motives; bro, i don't keep none of that secret lol) 15 Oct 2026
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