great book. disagree with him on some conclusions, as an anarchist lol, but the widescope view of the book, with so many anecdotes and historical views and comparisons, as a sort of caledoscopic view, is tremendously interesting.
I saw him on a Japanese tv network recently. His talked about eating habits of Western world vs indigenous tribes was on the spot. BUT, to eat like that you need to sacrifice time and money to accomplish this. Western industry, lifestyle and mode of transportation would radically (and I mean radically) have to change to enjoy such a lifestyle. Plus you the entire population of northern places would have to move to warmer climates. And how do you take care of mentally handicapped people --I hate to think what primitive tribes do to them.
The heavily reliance on western political system, economic structure, governance, foreign diplomacy, moral values can be learned from Asian and Middle east countries...it is great Jared mentions this because the west is too focusing on finding new solutions to counter traditional problems that can be solved easily
Those who exercise their brains regularly are less likely to develop diseases such as dementia and Alzheimer's. Use it or lose it. One could say the same of Jack Lalanne: "As an old man, it's remarkable that he could pull a tug-boat with his teeth!" Don't attribute attrition to age; attribute it to non-use.
That's analogous to what my point is people set there own limitations on what they can and can't do, age being one of them. Warren Buffet is a bit older and he keeps his brain in great shape by reading.
The only serious objection would be that exercise itself is a known and powerful specific against dementia. So multi-lingualism in New Guinea should be measured against mono-lingualism with the same physical, traditional lifestyle. Easter Island might be interesting.
Jared is an intelligent professor but he's not well rehearsed in statistics & probability. He claims there is a 1/1000 chance of a tree falling on you every night and after 3 years we can expect the tree to fall on you. This is not true, in fact it's worse. If p = 0.001 then the amount of nights you sleep until it becomes more likely than not that a tree will fall on you is = log(0.5)/log(1-0.001) = 693 nights ~ 2 years. He makes similar mistakes with his showering example as well. I'm not hating on this intelligent guy, I'm just saying that the maths he is using is wrong.
You made me look this up and it's pretty interesting how something seemingly so straight forward can be trickier than you think. This is the only clear mistake I've seen him make in any of his four books I've read so nice job spotting it.
Gonna disagree here. His language clearly suggests he's talking about expected value. The expected value of a geometric distribution with probability p is 1/p, so the "expected number of days" before u get hit by a tree is simply 1/1/1000 = 1000. He says "you can EXPECT to be hit by a tree in 1000 days". Chill on the criticism buddy, you need to brush up on your probability a bit more before you start picking on everyone's math on the internet.
Good research based on personal life experience...and good coverage of comparison between the world of yesterday and the world of today...but it could be more academic!
After the "Court of Justice", we stop speaking to the people who have used the system against us, and are compelled to "forgive", ..give what was taken "willingly" because it's a Democratic Ideal to respect duly elected and appointed officials of the democracy, instead of having the kind of proper discussion with the disputing parties that would preselect more appropriate official practices, ("payment in respect of actual value to participants should preclude the failure by payment in advance for "services" that deliberately disregard those values "by assuming lawful purposes" by Authorities), and give credence to the actual systems directly from personal experience and consensual free will adaptation to circumstances.., such as in small restrictions of tribal localization. A basis for "Restorative Justice". If you aren't multi-lingual in spoken/written language, maybe multi-discipline applications of the scientific method/research is better anyway.
He confuses correlation for cause in the salt in diet example, and conflate complex factor in nutrition and biochem. Other studies clearly show it is more risky to eat too little salt. Much rather forego sugar and seed oils, first...
Ironically and hypocritically, i Vann almost guarantee 100% he is for stricter gun laws, while at the same time preaching about the paranoia of terrorists vs. Ladder deaths
Diamond starts @ 8:16
Thanks , in most cases I like to skip the intro
thanks
I'm reading "the world Until Yesterday"by Jared Diamond.I'm indulged by the book.very interesting ,very educational.The lecture is perfect as well.
Jared Diamond is a national treasure!!!
OMG.. I just love the way Jared Diamond speaks!
He almost died from a falling tree last year.... one of the great speakers of our time....
He kicks ass for climbing trees. Good for him.
great book. disagree with him on some conclusions, as an anarchist lol, but the widescope view of the book, with so many anecdotes and historical views and comparisons, as a sort of caledoscopic view, is tremendously interesting.
Diamond got so much swag, it's insaine.
I saw him on a Japanese tv network recently. His talked about eating habits of Western world vs indigenous tribes was on the spot.
BUT, to eat like that you need to sacrifice time and money to accomplish this. Western industry, lifestyle and mode of transportation would radically (and I mean radically) have to change to enjoy such a lifestyle. Plus you the entire population of northern places would have to move to warmer climates. And how do you take care of mentally handicapped people --I hate to think what primitive tribes do to them.
The heavily reliance on western political system, economic structure, governance, foreign diplomacy, moral values can be learned from Asian and Middle east countries...it is great Jared mentions this because the west is too focusing on finding new solutions to counter traditional problems that can be solved easily
For a man of his age his brain is remarkably sharp.
Those who exercise their brains regularly are less likely to develop diseases such as dementia and Alzheimer's. Use it or lose it. One could say the same of Jack Lalanne: "As an old man, it's remarkable that he could pull a tug-boat with his teeth!" Don't attribute attrition to age; attribute it to non-use.
That's analogous to what my point is people set there own limitations on what they can and can't do, age being one of them. Warren Buffet is a bit older and he keeps his brain in great shape by reading.
The only serious objection would be that exercise itself is a known and powerful specific against dementia. So multi-lingualism in New Guinea should be measured against mono-lingualism with the same physical, traditional lifestyle. Easter Island might be interesting.
Brilliant man
I wouldn’t have heard of him without Vsauce...
Jared is an intelligent professor but he's not well rehearsed in statistics & probability. He claims there is a 1/1000 chance of a tree falling on you every night and after 3 years we can expect the tree to fall on you. This is not true, in fact it's worse. If p = 0.001 then the amount of nights you sleep until it becomes more likely than not that a tree will fall on you is = log(0.5)/log(1-0.001) = 693 nights ~ 2 years. He makes similar mistakes with his showering example as well.
I'm not hating on this intelligent guy, I'm just saying that the maths he is using is wrong.
You made me look this up and it's pretty interesting how something seemingly so straight forward can be trickier than you think. This is the only clear mistake I've seen him make in any of his four books I've read so nice job spotting it.
@Manley Nelson
If only you were not as bright, then we'd all be watching a RUclips video of you giving a lecture on your new book.
@Manley Nelson
No. It's about your lack of original thinking and the subsequent lack of respect and fame you can expect.
Gonna disagree here. His language clearly suggests he's talking about expected value. The expected value of a geometric distribution with probability p is 1/p, so the "expected number of days" before u get hit by a tree is simply 1/1/1000 = 1000.
He says "you can EXPECT to be hit by a tree in 1000 days". Chill on the criticism buddy, you need to brush up on your probability a bit more before you start picking on everyone's math on the internet.
every time he says 'societies' (s'saahh.reece) I come to a screeching perceptual halt.
Good research based on personal life experience...and good coverage of comparison between the world of yesterday and the world of today...but it could be more academic!
After the "Court of Justice", we stop speaking to the people who have used the system against us, and are compelled to "forgive", ..give what was taken "willingly" because it's a Democratic Ideal to respect duly elected and appointed officials of the democracy, instead of having the kind of proper discussion with the disputing parties that would preselect more appropriate official practices, ("payment in respect of actual value to participants should preclude the failure by payment in advance for "services" that deliberately disregard those values "by assuming lawful purposes" by Authorities), and give credence to the actual systems directly from personal experience and consensual free will adaptation to circumstances.., such as in small restrictions of tribal localization.
A basis for "Restorative Justice".
If you aren't multi-lingual in spoken/written language, maybe multi-discipline applications of the scientific method/research is better anyway.
He confuses correlation for cause in the salt in diet example, and conflate complex factor in nutrition and biochem. Other studies clearly show it is more risky to eat too little salt. Much rather forego sugar and seed oils, first...
Aaaaraa
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Ironically and hypocritically, i Vann almost guarantee 100% he is for stricter gun laws, while at the same time preaching about the paranoia of terrorists vs. Ladder deaths
His arguments are so unbelievably faulty.
Is this guy a creationist?