Can't stop thinking about the Yellowstone wolves fixing the whole place by trophic cascade. Someone just needed to oppress the herbivores. The presence or absence of an apex predator species makes a huge ecological difference.
What apex predator species is our society missing?
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The ability to fight and win wars was what kept human societies *fit* for millennia - but war has become impossible… so…
It’s not that all social change since trinity is maladaptive - it’s that we literally can’t tell the difference anymore.
What’s our fitness function now?
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There will likely be one, it's just extremely delayed.
It could be some kind of civil war, or a ground war that begins despite nuclear weapons, a hacking war of sorts, competition with AI.
Or it could just be only a few are willing and able to transcend to post human existence.
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