Was great fun to talk about kids, peer cultures, and cultural evolution with Jay and Tanay!

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Typically, childhood is seen as a preparatory period for adulthood, where kids just passively absorb complex cultural knowledge that adults pass down to them. Is this really the case? We discuss this and much more with @sheinalew.bsky.social youtu.be/32lr2EGnqfI

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But that's ultimately, I think, fine, because in this new era, our "value proposition" (ugh) as humanists will be: get us in a room and we can teach you how to actually think. I think that is, and will continue to be, very very valuable. We just need systems that will support that

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(By this I mean: some fancy people and their friends will trade papers they wrote back and forth at a few top journals. This is already mostly what happens, it will just be more obvious. For the median journal, though, even getting submissions to review will, I think, soon be impossible.)

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To the point where we're gonna need tenure-track lines everywhere (not just elite SLACs) where you can get tenure by teaching a 2-2 really well. Publishing human-written papers will still be a thing for a select elite to do, but I just don't see it mattering in even 5 years to most of us

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