Imagine humans moving toward ant-like social structure. Coordination like that can be effective, but low innovation and high groupthink.
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Replying to @HbdNrx
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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Replying to @HbdNrx
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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Replying to @InaneImperium @HbdNrx
...the extreme tradeoffs in the scenario you're describing are v unlikely, 1º because discovery-skills & learning skills are related
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Replying to @InaneImperium @HbdNrx
2º application often requires more creativity than discovery, esp w/ social outcomes; 3º you can't step in same river (polis) twice
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4º The idea of "innovation" just "stopping" (like, we run out of things to learn before ability to learn) seems extremely unlikely.
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declining marginal value of new discoveries seems to already be happening
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Replying to @HbdNrx
I think the rate of technical change is still so rapid it's damnably difficult to say. Esp with "same river twice" problem!
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Replying to @InaneImperium @HbdNrx
i.e., microbiology > antibiotics > poz and overpopulation > new antibiotic resistant plagues. Knowledge has an arms-race dimension
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