Can someone explains Sapiens popularity? I'm halfway through. It's fine but... ...I can't figure out the stratospheric reception.
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Replying to @generativist
I haven't read it, but I've seen critiques that it pulls the rhetorical move of claiming to tell hard truths and then actually confirming beliefs comfortable to elite tech-adjacent readers.
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Oh, that may be it. There were a lot of points where he did "of course, we can't prove [X]" before doing "scientists now know [Y]" move that makes me extremely wary.
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Have you seen
@AnandWrites review of Jared Diamond's latest book?https://www.nytimes.com/2019/05/17/books/review/upheaval-jared-diamond.html …1 reply 0 retweets 2 likes
I haven't. I'll check out in a little, thanks!
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