Civilization: Institutions, Knowledge and the Future - Samo

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Really neat lecture and yeah, hitting on the issue that if we don't have substantive generational knowledge transfer we can easily lose what we have and it an intellectual, possibly even material, dark age.

Yep....that's pretty much what happened with the Western Romans...…

They had knowledge of things like plumbing and road building----but, under those like the Ostrogoths, that knowledge was lost (especially plumbing) until the 19th century.

Another hour of this guy. I'll definitely have to keep tabs on his work.

Jonathan Blow (famous programmer) actually gave a speech recently giving the same warnings Samo is about concerns over whether generational knowledge is getting passed on. One of his examples was significant chip failures at a lot of different companies because new ideas were tried which didn't account for knowledge that was already had regarding electro-magnetic buildups that just wasn't passed on.

Didn't have the time to listen to all of it yet, but watched a few of the shorts he has on his channel. He's a good find, I think, bringing together some of Chomsky's ideas on government investment and myths of private innovation with the wide historical view of a Yuval Harari. Thanks for posting!

Plus, he tears some holes into American myths of personsl agency and individual merit, by pointing to the society one stands on.
Amen to that.