I won't imagine I could speak for Gillis, but to my mind there are a wide variety of kinds of rules, many of which are discovered and/or implicit. Others are explicit, or even contrived.
The standing army is either formed once the armed robbers consolidate their spheres of influence and begin farming their famers, or once the farmers get together and pay for a militia and magistrates to fight off invaders. The result is pretty much the same.
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I've been digging at this lately. There are some interesting real world examples of this phenomena playing out. Szabos has examples, but I've been looking for more. I suspect phenomena happens in roving driver ants + affects their hive structure over time.https://twitter.com/NickSzabo4/status/499314284413722624 …
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Theres a thing happens when you put a driver(?)/army ant near one that digs holes for their hive. Just scent of one makes the whole hive uproot and its a common way to capture hives all at once among etymologists. Suggests long held evolutionary effect.https://twitter.com/ultimape/status/651346580226842626 …
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