this feels like a rude question but i really do wanna know: past a certain ambient temperature does it get too hot for people to accomplish anything interesting? does the historical dominance of great britain over the rest of the world suggest this?
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i think if the ambient temperature was consistently hotter than maybe 80 fahrenheit then i wouldn’t be able to get anything done whatsoever, which meaningfully constrains my choices wrt where i live. at some point you must run into real biological limits
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it would be interesting to know what the weather was like where historically significant intellectuals tended to spend their time. i expect somewhat cold - lots of northern europe etc.
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some interesting stuff here, nothing directly about intellectual or creative work but everything is massively confounded by the fact that places further from the equator tend to be *richer*
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for diving off point:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Environme
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