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    1. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr 14 Feb 2019
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      Here's a weird thought. Human language was invented in an environment where max scale was say a few hundred. Written language, for maybe a few 1000. Yet here we are, using language casually at scales of potentially 7 billion with thousands of tricky translations, and it works.

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      Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr 14 Feb 2019
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      Very few human technologies of paleolithic vintage can claim this level of scaling success

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        1. Ben DiFrancesco‏ @BenDiFrancesco 14 Feb 2019
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          You’ve got the causation backwards. We didn’t scale up and just keep using language. We invented language, and that is *why* we scaled up.

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        2. Will Bickford‏ @wbic16 14 Feb 2019
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          Next level language probably requires neural interfaces. Our Paleolithic appendages are just too damn slow!

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        1. Sangeet Paul Choudary‏ @sanguit 14 Feb 2019
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          Language(particularly syntax and grammar) is probably the only set of communication protocols built in that era. Perhaps that’s why it scales. Grammar and syntax serve as a strong core around which innovation (slang, amelioration etc) makes language ‘current’ and scalable.

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        1. Virtual Raj‏ @VirajSinha 14 Feb 2019
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          Programming language framed as a human language but “close to the metal” in the sense of being refined down to the interface between both human-compatibility and mathematical rigor— by this formulation is an extension of human lang... plus scale!

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        2. Nanakorobi Yaoki‏ @FrederickLittl3 14 Feb 2019
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          Or maybe Burroughs was right, language is not a technology, it's a virus. Or, if you prefer, s symbiote. We're just the hosts.

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        3. Kalcinator‏ @Karle34 15 Feb 2019
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          What ?? Can I need to read this

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        1. Viveka  🌳 🔋 🧬 🩸 विवेक‏ @viveka 14 Feb 2019
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          All the really important tech was deployable with nothing but a sharp rock and a bone. Tally marks (thence numbers, writing), flutes, divination.

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        1. Alex Singh‏ @automaticyes 15 Feb 2019
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          Why? Some ideas: Its small size increases adaptability (Eg creolization, translation) thus scalability. It isn’t directly ideological but transmits it. Its utility follows a power law as it’s adopted. It’s rooted in our cognition & it proliferates via symbiosis w/ memes?

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        2. InTheGames‏ @TheInTheGames 15 Feb 2019
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          Agriculture?

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        3. InTheGames‏ @TheInTheGames 15 Feb 2019
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          To be more precise I guess Agriculture + Distribution. If anything it constraints/causes scaling

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