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    1. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr 10 Nov 2017
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      The culture wars are not resolvable through debate. We are on the cusp of a Cambrian explosion of pseudospeciation. May the best candidates for homo sapiens subculturalis win.

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    2. Diane Foley‏ @Tantele 11 Nov 2017
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      You r an optimist. What about cyclicality in impact/response btwn aging systems and incoming participants? Any system has a maturity curve. Many today are clogged with toxic legacy byproducts and challenged by new, non trafitional participants.

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    3. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr 11 Nov 2017
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      There's a lot of that too. I think the Pareto circulation-of-elites foxes-and-lions cycle explains a lot of the current tenor of culture wars. Aging systems included in formulation though. There will be more species in new crop of institutions.

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    4. Diane Foley‏ @Tantele 11 Nov 2017
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      I get your point. Social evolution confounds classical evolution of the species. I thinking of social force as a (mostly)hidden dimension.

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    5. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr 11 Nov 2017
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      Sci-fi plot I've been thinking about: all babies are made via opt-in unbundled economy of egg/sperm banks and surrogate wombs and foster parenting. Solves declining birth rate but completely rewires culture.

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    6. Diane Foley‏ @Tantele 11 Nov 2017
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      Wondering about all human mediated breeding efforts suffering from to little diversity by at least an order of magnitude.

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    7. Diane Foley‏ @Tantele 11 Nov 2017
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      Inbreeding quickly results after a low number of generations

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    8. Diane Foley‏ @Tantele 11 Nov 2017
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      Health problems and die off follow.

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    9. Diane Foley‏ @Tantele 11 Nov 2017
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      Look at how domesticated animal populations fare.

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      Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr 11 Nov 2017
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      That's the hard part of figuring out the human sci-fi versions. Would we reproduce the fragile monocultural tendencies of animal factory farming, or figure out clever ways to have unbundled breeding be a robust genetic mixing process.

      10:08 AM - 11 Nov 2017
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        1. Diane Foley‏ @Tantele 11 Nov 2017
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          Our cognitive bias for predictable results in a narrow range would be a big factor in tripping us up.

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