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Robin Hanson: Status and Our Forager Future

From the New World

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The Global Mob Is Not Just a Political Machine

"The global mob draws its power by basically creating explicit structure is that enforce a type of conformity," he says. "It's kind of something more conforming this is like basically a blackmail tactic." The people who are most listened to in this world community of talkers yes are people who have positions of power in the world, writes Peter Bergen.

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