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There's nothing obvious about civilization. Under slightly different conditions, it could have never arised, or could have gotten stuck into a perpetual local minimum until extinction (e.g. no agriculture & cities, or no writing, or no ironworking...)
Think about humanity in the early Neolithic -- thousands of different cultures minding their own business in their own corner of the world. Remarkably, each seminal technology (e.g. agriculture, writing, copper) was only invented independently at most 2-3 times, often just once
These technologies are very much non obvious. And they tend to all depend on each other. It could easily have turned out very differently. There is nothing inevitable or deterministic about technological progress, independently of human cognitive abilities.
And under differently different conditions, it could have been better (eg no war or fascism.)
I agree it's not obvious, but it also seems like things moved quickly (compared to the timeframe of the Paleolithic) once the Holocene brought in a favorable, stable climate.
There's actually a specific theory about that, having to do with the greater availability of food in the river deltas once sea level had stabilized. All the early civilizations arose in deltas, of course. https://core.ac.uk/download/pdf/44296354.pdf …
The Silurian Hypothesis
We could currently be in a local minimum right now. Cause we don't know the potentials inventions that could have been made
There's a reason why almost no one believes this.
You should give it then. This is a worthless tweet.
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