Obviously what happened historically is that it was an evolutionary process People who were more "superstitious" and scrupulous about soaking and squeezing the cassava again and again and again lived in communities that were healthier and lived longer
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This is a great thread. Our elders also came up with the idea of quarantine for dealing with infectious diseases, which seemed old-timey in the modern world, until it didn't.
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It’s also not a dichotomy: it’s super easy to tell a kid “here’s how you use a can opener “ and then once they’re fed, ask how/why they think it works. Kids care about learning and don’t have to be motivated by scarcity of food thank God.
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or in other words, in the long run the vast majority of things people have figured out from scratch have been things that killed them, which they figured out the hard way and which their neighbors may or may not have been present to learn from.
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