Reception of radical works

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1. Ada PalmerNeutralJun 16, 2026· Dwarkesh Podcast

   Works with radical ideas gain readership when later societies find them relevant to contemporary questions.

   “It is often the case that a work which contains radically unusual ideas will drift along, being not particularly zoomed in on by society and not widely read until it hits a moment that the new questions being asked in that century or that decade are answered by something in that text.”

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