The Secret of Our Success

Joseph Henrich · first published 2016

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Trenton Bricken on Dwarkesh Podcast (2025-05-22): mention
“…Joe Heinrich's The Secret of our Success is all about this.…”
Is RL + LLMs enough for AGI? — Sholto Douglas & Trenton Bricken
Dwarkesh Patel on EconTalk (2025-04-28): recommend
“…Joseph Hendrick has this wonderful book about this…”
The Past and Future of AI (with Dwarkesh Patel)
Peter Godfrey-Smith on 80,000 Hours Podcast (2024-10-03): recommend
“…He wrote a book some years ago called The Secret of Our Success, which is about how that secret is culture…”
Peter Godfrey-Smith on interfering with wild nature, accepting death, and the origin of complex civilisation
Will MacAskill on The Tim Ferriss Show (2022-08-05): recommend
“…And that’s Joe Henrich’s books, The Secret Of Our Success and The WEIRDest People in the World.…”
Will MacAskill of Effective Altruism Fame — The Value of Longtermism, Tools for Beating Stress and Overwhelm, AI Scenarios, High-Impact Books, and How to Save the World and Be an Agent of Change (#612)
Moshe Koppel on EconTalk (2022-01-31): mention
“…One example that I think is very nice, is Joseph Henrich in his book, The Secret of Our Success, talks about the Tucanoans…”
Moshe Koppel on Norms, Tradition, and Resilient Societies
Dave Denkenberger on 80,000 Hours Podcast (2021-11-29): mention
“…There was this book called The Secret of Our Success, which looks at examples of people in a more developed circumstance…”
David Denkenberger on using paper mills and seaweed to feed everyone in a catastrophe, ft Sahil Shah
Will MacAskill on 80,000 Hours Podcast (2020-01-24): recommend
“…is ‘The Secret of Our Success’ by Joseph Henrich, which is about cultural evolution…”
Will MacAskill on the moral case against ever leaving the house, whether now is the hinge of history, and the culture of effective altruism
Arnold Kling on EconTalk (2018-07-02): recommend
“…One is The Secret of Our Success, by Joe Henrich…”
Arnold Kling on Morality, Culture, and Tribalism