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Takeaways from Chapter Two:
- Chimpanzees, our closest living relatives, are not successfully able to organize in groups larger than 100 at max. Humans, through their language, are able to craft myths as the social glue to organize masses in cooperation. Nations and
laws are powerful fictions
- Language is technology that enables us to change our lives without being bound to our biologies, hyperspeed evolution
— Apr 11, 2024 05:39AM
- Chimpanzees, our closest living relatives, are not successfully able to organize in groups larger than 100 at max. Humans, through their language, are able to craft myths as the social glue to organize masses in cooperation. Nations and
laws are powerful fictions
- Language is technology that enables us to change our lives without being bound to our biologies, hyperspeed evolution
