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Toxic Bitcoiner · 24w
They’re both strange anomalies. ChatGPT: “The Inca had a redistribution system managed by the state. People paid taxes in labor (the mit’a system), and the government redistributed food, textile...
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Second step is basically what we have today. Inner monologue etc... He explains as a step above a animal where instead of just instinctively doing something, you have a voice (God, Ancestor, etc) tell you what to do. Fucking great book... If it's right, it helps explain quite a lot mental problems like schizophrenia and Tourettes.

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Toxic Bitcoiner · 24w
Have you seen this piece? https://www.onceinaspecies.com/p/once-in-a-species-73b TLDR: Our species’ unique success (over other human subspecies) came not from raw IQ, or just tools or language, but from a neural wiring that emphasised abstract thought and a compulsive appreciation of scarce colle...