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Referenced in discussion about the first generation of people learning to read, noting that 'obviously people got like very enthusiastic about the Bible' and 'they went off and, you know, wars and like all this stuff to follow'

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Referenced when discussing how the internet might be a 'giant assimilation machine' into Western culture - Mark Andreessen mentions 'the Joseph Henrich, you know, weird, you know, kind of concept' referring to Henrich's work on WEIRD (Western, Educated, Industrialized, Rich, Democratic) societies

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Referenced as 'one of Plato's dialogues' containing 'a famous passage' about the Egyptian god Thoth presenting the invention of writing to the Pharaoh, who was 'absolutely appalled' - used to illustrate historical resistance to new technology