Venkatesh Rao@vgr·Oct 9, 2016Replying to @turrible_taonot following your point. History is overdetermined always. There's economic, culture, psychological threads. Change happens.1
Venkatesh Rao@vgr·Oct 9, 2016Replying to @turrible_taoyou're arguing very basic tech determinism vs social determinism you realize?3
Venkatesh Rao@vgrReplying to @vgr and @turrible_taosee this for my synthesis that I think reflects how the chicken-egg evolution actually works http://breakingsmart.com/en/season-1/the-principle-of-generative-pluralism/…9:46 PM · Oct 9, 20161 Retweet
Venkatesh Rao@vgr·Oct 9, 2016Replying to @vgr and @turrible_taotech determinism and social determinism are standard ways of talking about these things... there's Wikipedia entries on them2
Venkatesh Rao@vgr·Oct 9, 2016Replying to @vgr and @turrible_taothis was my level-up.. the cost is that pluralism is ideologically inefficient and makes progress messier but more robust1