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ExLisper@linux.community ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

I would say it a combination of two things:

  1. People walked around for around ~300.000 years before inventing agriculture. That’s a lot of time to find out things by accident. We learned about antibiotics by accident. I’m sure also stumbled upon many inventions by pure luck.
  2. Caveman were smart. As smart as we are. Average person is not going to invent electronic watches but there’s always this 1% that’s more curious and intelligent that will experiment and discover things.

Combine this and you have 300.000 years of very slow but steady progress fuelled by chance discoveries and occasional geniuses.

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