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[–] [email protected] 7 points 4 months ago

Civilization is anomalous. Yes.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 4 months ago

Pretty sure we had a triage stage during the whole prehistory to get to our point to randomly get an individual violent and cunning enough to survive the wilds and other competitors but helpful and sociable enough to survive within it's tribe.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 months ago

Crop domestication

[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Its all about building ontop of the law of adjacent possibilities, which end up becoming an S tier for progress. Of course it started out slow.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago

Yeah it's OP in the long run, though draws helluva lot at the start

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 months ago

Everything we do is built on top of something else. We needed to build a society capable of supporting industry and learning, then written language, mathematics etc.

Once you have the building blocks of society, everything else comes much faster.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 months ago (7 children)

Oldest stone axes are like a million years.

We're not the first smart species.

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