Sep '23 • General discussion
The superorganism - got parasites!
I highly recommend the Steve and Friends chatshow with one of the experts on the superorganism. It sort of explains what happened when humans went from basically tribes, to feudal arrangements to cities to global economy. It represents a challenge in modelling it for systems thinking economists, they talk a little of the maths involved and insights.
HOWEVER
Having seen that one you have to watch the interview with Jordan Petersson. He speaks of how society can be literally taken over by predatory psychopaths who exploit the fact that most people are nice and kind and helpful. In fact, the nicer and kinder, the more of a potential victim you are and useful to the cause.
My take:
The reason things don't work as most people think they should is because society is infected. Like all parasitised organisms, it is hard to shake them off. In the case of mankind we need to be hard, aggressive, determined and wary.
We need to develop a culture that makes it hard for these psychopaths to get into the system. And a culture that once infected, has mechanisms for expulsion. Remember Hinton axiom #2: you can do good things with bad systems and bad things with good systems.
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The superorganism - got parasites!
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