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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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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Next level language probably requires neural interfaces. Our Paleolithic appendages are just too damn slow!
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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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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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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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What ?? Can I need to read this
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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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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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Agriculture?
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To be more precise I guess Agriculture + Distribution. If anything it constraints/causes scaling
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