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https://waitbutwhy.com/2014/01/your-family-past-present-and-future.html

Before you wince, absorb this fact: according to Rutgers anthropology professor Robin Fox, 80% of all marriages in history have been between second cousins or closer.1

The reason for this is that for most of human history, people spent most of their lives in the same five mile radius, and the other people in that same area tended to be immediate and extended family. To get away from their extended family when courting, men would have to walk over five miles away, which after a long day of hunting you just don?t feel like doing.

In the Western World, this is largely a phenomenon of the past, but in many parts of the world, this is still a common practice?for example, in most of the Middle East and North Africa, over 50% of today?s marriages are between second cousins or closer.

This isn't a book, but it is a 2 hour long lecture from a series by Robert Sapolsky, a professor at Stanford. The series covers a lot of topics from biology to psychology, in this lesson we'll learn:

He details how a small difference at one place in nature can have a huge effect on a system as time goes on. He calls this idea fractal magnification and applies it to many different systems that exist throughout nature.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o_ZuWbX-CyE



LolDongs told me about this guy, maybe he can explain more!

Another one from LolDongs.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n8m7lFQ3njk



In this video Douglas Hofstadter, author of "I am a strange loop", examines the connection between analogy and cognition.

I already read this, maybe you should too?

https://www.spectator.co.uk/2018/11/beyond-democracy-could-seasteads-and-cryptocurrencies-replace-the-nation-state/

For the past 20 years I've been working to enable start-up societies: permanent autonomous zones on land or at sea intended to accelerate economic development and to serve as laboratories for voluntary political experiments.

As billions of dollars pour into coding competing governance technologies, it seems likely (perhaps inevitable) that some will succeed. Those that do will have proved that they are able to coordinate millions of stakeholders to manage an economy worth billions. It would be difficult then to describe these methods as untested.

As Venkatesh Rao writes: "Offline we're still in the fall of Rome. Online we're already into Italian city states."