This will likely be a series of poasts. I hadn't listened to the whole Dwarkesh-from-Reich interview but we do have a transcript. I was always more a reader than a listener anyway.
Among the other bombshells, and the refusal to acknowledge Piffer or Harpending or Cochran or Murray; I'm here to comment on this: The TYK2 variant for tuberculosis risk, a multiple sclerosis risk variant, inflected and increased in frequency before the Bronze Age, and then 2,000 or 3,000 years ago reversed in that period.
My boldface.
MS is, I think, associated with a herpes virus: here the Epstein-Barr mononucleosis / glandular-fever. This maybe inspired Aldiss' bone-fever (later, fat-death). The herpes baseline goes waaaayyy back; I think even alligators get it.
"TYK2" refers to on-receptor tyrosine-protein kinase
. Wiki relates it not to MS but to arterio-sclerosis.
I wonder if Reich or at least the transcription has suffered his/its own "mis-sense". Dwarkesh's chart seems irrelevant to that part of the interview.
BACKDATE 5/14
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