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Writer, software person, armchair anthropologist, dilettante. All genders, all political opinions welcome. Book: https://amzn.com/0190495995/ 

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    1. Kevin Simler‏ @KevinSimler May 8
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      PET PEEVE: Theorists who use "superstition" as a buck-stopping explanation for broad patterns of human behavior. Below: A passage from "The Origins of Political Order" by Francis Fukuyamapic.twitter.com/gEGTidYCuW

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    2. Kevin Simler‏ @KevinSimler May 8
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      "Because superstition" is an explanation of last resort. Very intellectually lazy.

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    3. Kevin Simler‏ @KevinSimler May 8
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      Fukuyama is right that there's a puzzle, though: Individuals have almost no reason to prefer their fourth cousin to a friendly stranger. So how do tribes of distant relatives cohere?

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      It's not fear of supernatural retribution. Rather, the shared ancestors serve as a focal point for coordination.

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    5. Nirmal Thacker‏ @n7hacker May 8
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      me thinks "Surnames / last names / family names " are that invention which set the co-ordination, trust and reputation layer. It could then incentivize distant cousins to uphold the value accrued at the layer. But this doesn't explain why some last names are location based

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      Kevin Simler‏ @KevinSimler May 8
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      i think cleisthenes (a reformer in ancient athens) switched everyone from family names to location-based names precisely to break the power of families

      9:27 PM - 8 May 2019
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