“You mentioned Darwin's theory of evolution. There's this book, The Clockwork Universe by Edward Dolnick, which covers a lot of this era of history we're talking about.”
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From Dwarkesh Podcast · 2026-03-20
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“He has this interesting observation in there. The Origin of Species was published in 1859. Principia Mathematica was published in 1687. So The Origin of Species comes out two centuries”
“Principia Mathematica was published in 1687. So The Origin of Species comes out two centuries after Principia. Conceptually,”
“It's not a purely human-AI distinction. Humans also, I think it was Berlin who split them into hedgehogs and foxes. The hedgehog knows one thing very well,”