Imagine humans moving toward ant-like social structure. Coordination like that can be effective, but low innovation and high groupthink.
When the value of innovation is high, more individualistic structures will dominate. What if the value of innovation declines?
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What if we get to the point that we've picked all the low hanging fruit? Is it inevitable that humanity moves in the ant-like direction?
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If you mean purely "What if the future is East Asia, not the West?" then the answer is sure that might happen. But on the merits,
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...the extreme tradeoffs in the scenario you're describing are v unlikely, 1º because discovery-skills & learning skills are related
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I'm thinking not just of the immediate future in which Asia looks like it will dominate, partly because they coordinate well,
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but also the more distant future of human evolution.
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