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[–] VirtualOdour@sh.itjust.works 8 points 2 months ago (1 children)

We haven't even hit the steep bit of the curve yet, wait until you see where we are by the end of this century!

[–] MataVatnik@lemmy.world 4 points 2 months ago (3 children)

Slaves to a digital corporate machine ruled by sentient AI

[–] Obi@sopuli.xyz 4 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Or back to the caves, hunting with sticks and stones, could go either way really.

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[–] TootSweet@lemmy.world 7 points 2 months ago

Civilization is anomalous. Yes.

[–] Mechaguana@programming.dev 6 points 2 months ago

Pretty sure we had a triage stage during the whole prehistory to get to our point to randomly get an individual violent and cunning enough to survive the wilds and other competitors but helpful and sociable enough to survive within it's tribe.

[–] alcoholicorn@lemmy.ml 5 points 2 months ago

Crop domestication

[–] Grayox@lemmy.ml 5 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Its all about building ontop of the law of adjacent possibilities, which end up becoming an S tier for progress. Of course it started out slow.

[–] Allero 2 points 1 month ago

Yeah it's OP in the long run, though draws helluva lot at the start

[–] Ilovethebomb@lemm.ee 4 points 2 months ago

Everything we do is built on top of something else. We needed to build a society capable of supporting industry and learning, then written language, mathematics etc.

Once you have the building blocks of society, everything else comes much faster.

[–] Dasus@lemmy.world 4 points 2 months ago (7 children)

Oldest stone axes are like a million years.

We're not the first smart species.

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