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NW Europeans are not smarter than other Eurasians. It wasn’t an Englishman that invented paper, gunpowder, or the water mill. There were early signs of a military superiority in the far ranging conquests of the Vikings and the French in the Holy Land, but nothing overwhelming.
But from the moment Gutenberg invented the printing press the rest of the world was doomed. The easy spread of literacy allowed the mental advantages of autistic milk drinkers to become apparent in the formation of scientific societies.
Jews produce more high quality science per capita than any other group in the world, but only NW Europeans could have built up the nerdy critical mass to invent science itself and once they did their superior rote memories gave them an insurmountable advantage.
That was my long Twitter thread. Got at least two more to go, one on West African creativity and the other an attempt to explain the autism epidemic.
This advantage must have reached new heights with the internet. Why is semantic memory more important than episodic memory in warfare? It seems obvious, nw euros & Mongols, but where does it come in? Do they remember orders better? Learn from past experiences better?
Semantic memory is a byproduct of mental organization, clustering facts into categories like "mammal". I'm arguing that his type of memory is a only a "tell", an indirect indicator, like the tip of a much larger iceberg of superior planning and organization.
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