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Seconded!

The thing that I think about from them is the 'Reverse Fermi Paradox'. We've been humans for ~200k years now. Just in the last 10k or so have we had 'civilization'. What were we doing for the other 19/20ths of our time here? Ice ages don't account for all that time and there were warm periods in them. What was going with us all that time?

I think about it a lot also in context of their reviews of different cultural models. It seems we spent a lot of time experimenting and trying out a bazillion different ways to organize and have families and be in a tribe. Since we've no record of it, I'm fascinated by how our deep ancestors lived as a culture and how different it was.



>we had 'civilization'

Can't resist this apocryphal Gandhi quote:

Reporter: What do you think of civilization?

Gandhi: I think it is a good idea.


The quote, apocryphal or not, was "What do you think of Western civilization?"


Didn't know, cool.




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