Thoughts on the impact of the information explosion on society: When the agricultural revolution happened, people traded ok but scarce diets for shittier but more readily available ones.
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The current information explosion isn't really leading to a higher population (if anything, people are fucking less, and there are more types of birth control), but it does seem like it's introducing something weird into the underlying class system that exists today.
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People are both more geographically mobile and more limited by their dependence on the trappings of civilization - it's much harder to gather a group of people and walk away into the forest if you want to, both for technical and power-asymmetrical reasons.
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People still compete with status displays but there's a rapidly accelerating aesthetic arms race, where the previously scarce signaling mechanisms (colours, design, branding) get rapidly reverse engineered and imitations flood the market and destroy the signal's utility.
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The frontiers are all virtual, which leaves peoples' bodies abandoned in physical space.
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If rambling on this topic interests you, try this on for size:https://autotranslucence.wordpress.com/2018/09/20/below-the-api/ …
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