yeah, eventual convergence is likely, but it's going to have a lot of little subcultural whorls and niches - if anything, lowering...
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...linguistic barriers increases the effective population size for supporting specialization
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Replying to @puellavulnerata @HolicShot
You know, after thinking about this all for a little bit, and stepping orthogonally for a second --
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I think that it's generally that some species in ST, for example, are built more multivalently than others. e.g. c.f. Vulcans to Klingons
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Replying to @0xdeadbabe @HolicShot
Yeah, but Vulcans are another case of "one weird religion took over the whole civilization"
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I mean, it's in so deep they pretend the Romulans are a separate species after only 2,000 years of separation
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Replying to @puellavulnerata @HolicShot
This is kinda what I was calling back to earlier, where we talk about two identical species with different names because of divergent cultur
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When cultural development expands at scale, is such a divergence a plausible thing, or is it fanciful?
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Replying to @0xdeadbabe @HolicShot
you won't get divergence into separate species that fast in human-like slow reproducers
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unless they do something naughty with genetic engineering
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