Douglas_Knight comments on Link: PRISMs, Gom Jabbars, and Consciousness (Peter Watts) - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Douglas_Knight 12 October 2009 04:55:06PM 1 point [-]

peoples who have culture and genes unchanged in the last 3000 years

To quote the pdf you dug up:

Anthropologists once had the assumption that if you find a hunter-gatherer tribe nowadays, it is in a stone age similar to a pre-civilized era. This is not true. Each has had a history just as long as we have, and perhaps a complicated history of going through a bicameral phase somewhere...

Comment author: Morendil 12 October 2009 05:25:12PM 2 points [-]

...and Jared Diamond's "Guns, Germs and Steel" explains why this long history doesn't result in industrial capability.