One of the benefits of ideological shortcuts is that you can build more infra around them that lets a society or tribe work productively 39/
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But these abstractions, which work beautifully for the fixed point, degrade over time and eventually fail competitively 40/
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We need to use these shortcuts to build abstractions, but groups built around them need to revisit them regularly 41/
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And then, they must help each other migrate in a way that doesn't cause upheaval and that preserves as much shared value as possible 42/
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Change is inevitable, and that makes the process of adapting to in inevitable as well 43/
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One approach is to resist ideological shortcuts and examine every problem by doing the full cost calculus 44/
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But this is incredibly expensive and isn't competitive with newer groups that operate on relatively recent ideologies 45/
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Because they get the benefit of the shortcuts and you don't 46/
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Instead, we have to 1. create shortcuts but remember their chain of reasoning 46/
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@kenshi NOOOOOOO
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