High trust, high IQ societies beat clannish, high IQ societies. As long at there are barriers keeping the two separate high trust strategy wins every time. Inside a single society the clannish, high IQ demolish the high trust people - their defenses only work against outsiders https://twitter.com/ajdhenry/status/1160352602434887680 …
Sure, but how did it work out in fact for the hi trust societies? Destroyed b/c they let in clannish outsiders who gamed the hell out of systems that - although very effective at producing output to beat outsiders when bent to that purpose - are vulnerable to capture