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by true_religion 2285 days ago
Indeed. Early Hans were not genetically distinct from us, but they did not have iPhones to distract them.

Solution? Throw away your iPhone.

1 comments

If I end up carving arrowheads by the river, that won't help me much :)

It's true that distractions were fewer but the work we expect ourselves to do is also very different. It's unclear to me that just getting rid of the distractions would be enough.