Josh Farley: "The Past, Present, and Future of Human Cooperation"
The Great Simplification with Nate Hagens
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Are Humans a Superorganism?
Since the dawn of agriculture, ten or 12 thousand years ago, human cultures have been gradually, but inexorably, out sourcing what we do to the cloud and to the collective. So i would actually argue that our collective knowledge quite possibly predates language. I think there's evidence that we have more plasticity than we're often given credit for. The larger your population, the more complex a society you can have.
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