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by JPKab 1200 days ago
Noah is the man, BUT he has a really nasty habit of talking about subjects without referring to some canonical sources of his ideas that pre-date his own takes by a ton.

Haidt was WAY ahead of him on the smartphones causing depression by YEARS.

Additionally, with geopolitics, he encapsulates a lot of work by Peter Zeihan without ever referring to him directly.

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Yeah, as I was reading it I was like, "This is basically a low-res version of what Jon Haidt has been writing about for years..."