superforecasting. chapter 6. stone age is the longest history of human cognition. arguably, numbers made no sense to civilization until 1713 when bernoulli published.
and even now, scarcely 300 years later, have we enabled the technology behind such numeracy.
prior to 1713, 100% of humans were innumerate. they were stone age primitives. in 2020, the fact has become patently obvious that 99.9% of humans are innumerate. they are modern primitives.
ouch.