3 month ago
philgyford : What to do now to improve the human race in the long term? | Ask Metafilter - After reading 'Last and First Men' I've been wondering this, so I asked Metafilter.
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42 month ago
deusx : The Worst Mistake in the History of the Human Race - "In particular, recent discoveries suggest that the adoption of agriculture, supposedly our most decisive step toward a better life, was in many ways a catastrophe from which we have never recovered."
jkottke : Jarad Diamond calls agriculture "the worst mistake in the history of the human race" - "With the advent of agriculture [the] elite became better off, but most people became worse off".
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