> For much of human history, knowledge was transferred orally, so maybe humans are naturally better at that. I'm dubious of that inference: For much of human

> For much of human history, knowledge was transferred orally, so maybe humans are naturally better at that. I'm dubious of that inference: For much of human history (we are mostly unchanged from 200k years ago), we lived poorly and made no technological progress. When all we had was oral knowledge transfer, we spent at least a couple of 100k years making no progress. When writing was invented, progress came almost immediately. To me it seems fairly clear that progress was basically non-existent until writing was invented. This makes me think that oral knowledge sharing is the worst form there is.