Biological scalability is the ability to support a larger, denser, and/or wealthier population in a given ecosystem.
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And regarding Homo sapiens’ evolution among greatest scalability inventions imo were language, writing, money and typography. Most recent are internet and maybe BTC:-)
Yep, social scalability. I'd say markets, the networks of deals, enabling greater division of labor as the biggest social scalability win. Perhaps at a different level of the "protocol stack" than your list though, since they rely on language and benefit from writing & printing.
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The inflection point of the human evolution is when we learned to create abstractions and to believe in them, such as religion or money: when tribe A who believes in God and was ready to die for Him/Her, met tribe B who was atheist, tribe A won.
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What‘s incredibly fascinating is that our body, our society, and all its constructs, are “just” a fractal built around our gene survival.
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Largely separate, but since they are both big patterns of history that interact, we need to start thinking about them together. Here's a thread I recently wrote that is an early (hopefully many more to come!) effort in that regard:https://twitter.com/NickSzabo4/status/1104830969561833472 …
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