Robin Hanson: Status and Our Forager Future
From the New World
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Forager Values Aren't Quite Like Foragers
As the pressures to be farmers have receded and people have drifted back toward foragers. Although they're in a strange world that isn't the world foragers lived in so we living in much higher density, or anonymity, or strange technology and a lot of work. But simultaneously you can't I think you can't make it quite a reasonable case that these basically these kind of social norms are at least somewhat similar. So, what's the kind of payoff here? What can we predict about the future that is sort of non obvious by saying that people are reverting to forager values?"
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