{"ancestors":[{"id":"111908544501876434","created_at":"2024-02-10T18:14:32.000Z","in_reply_to_id":null,"in_reply_to_account_id":"109319103690258674","sensitive":false,"spoiler_text":"","visibility":"public","language":"en","uri":"https://canada.masto.host/users/graydon/statuses/111908544378106343","url":"https://canada.masto.host/@graydon/111908544378106343","replies_count":3,"reblogs_count":2,"favourites_count":0,"quotes_count":0,"edited_at":"2024-02-10T18:18:15.000Z","content":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan class=\"h-card\" translate=\"no\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https://mstdn.social/@Remittancegirl\" class=\"u-url mention\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"\u003e@\u003cspan\u003eRemittancegirl\u003c/span\u003e\u003c/a\u003e\u003c/span\u003e \u003cspan class=\"h-card\" translate=\"no\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https://mstdn.social/@_L1vY_\" class=\"u-url mention\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"\u003e@\u003cspan\u003e_L1vY_\u003c/span\u003e\u003c/a\u003e\u003c/span\u003e \u003cspan class=\"h-card\" translate=\"no\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https://wandering.shop/@cstross\" class=\"u-url mention\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"\u003e@\u003cspan\u003ecstross\u003c/span\u003e\u003c/a\u003e\u003c/span\u003e If when you are a child and when you do not act that way, if every time you are not normal, you are beaten, starved, isolated, and damaged, you either die or you turn into an adult who has an unconsidered axiom that you have to be normal. You may not be able to articulate why; you are probably extremely uncomfortable asking the question. But all your behaviour is constrained by a belief that anything can, must, and will be done to those who are not normal.\u003c/p\u003e","reblog":null,"account":{"id":"109387673294092820","username":"graydon","acct":"graydon@canada.masto.host","display_name":"Graydon","locked":true,"bot":false,"discoverable":false,"indexable":false,"group":false,"created_at":"2022-11-22T00:00:00.000Z","note":"\u003cp\u003eStarts-with-X programmer. Fantasy author. The human social function emulator may not function as expected.  He/they. 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Why punish individuality/diversity so harshly in the first place? Why not just let people be? I don't think I understand the motivation?\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan class=\"h-card\" translate=\"no\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https://mstdn.social/@Remittancegirl\" class=\"u-url mention\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"\u003e@\u003cspan\u003eRemittancegirl\u003c/span\u003e\u003c/a\u003e\u003c/span\u003e \u003cspan class=\"h-card\" translate=\"no\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https://mstdn.social/@_L1vY_\" class=\"u-url mention\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"\u003e@\u003cspan\u003e_L1vY_\u003c/span\u003e\u003c/a\u003e\u003c/span\u003e \u003cspan class=\"h-card\" translate=\"no\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https://wandering.shop/@cstross\" class=\"u-url mention\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"\u003e@\u003cspan\u003ecstross\u003c/span\u003e\u003c/a\u003e\u003c/span\u003e\u003c/p\u003e","reblog":null,"account":{"id":"110646615396244961","username":"duncanlock","acct":"duncanlock@cosocial.ca","display_name":"Duncan Lock","locked":false,"bot":false,"discoverable":true,"indexable":true,"group":false,"created_at":"2023-06-27T00:00:00.000Z","note":"","url":"https://cosocial.ca/@duncanlock","uri":"https://cosocial.ca/users/duncanlock","avatar":"https://fsn1.your-objectstorage.com/drum/cache/accounts/avatars/110/646/615/396/244/961/original/f163932ec10c1aa3.jpg","avatar_static":"https://fsn1.your-objectstorage.com/drum/cache/accounts/avatars/110/646/615/396/244/961/original/f163932ec10c1aa3.jpg","header":"https://fsn1.your-objectstorage.com/drum/cache/accounts/headers/110/646/615/396/244/961/original/5b07461e20f17901.jpg","header_static":"https://fsn1.your-objectstorage.com/drum/cache/accounts/headers/110/646/615/396/244/961/original/5b07461e20f17901.jpg","followers_count":90,"following_count":560,"statuses_count":1625,"last_status_at":"2026-04-13","hide_collections":false,"emojis":[],"fields":[{"name":"duncanlock.net","value":"\u003ca href=\"https://duncanlock.net/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" translate=\"no\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"invisible\"\u003ehttps://\u003c/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"\"\u003eduncanlock.net/\u003c/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"invisible\"\u003e\u003c/span\u003e\u003c/a\u003e","verified_at":"2026-04-13T16:13:10.623+00:00"}]},"media_attachments":[],"mentions":[{"id":"109387673294092820","username":"graydon","url":"https://canada.masto.host/@graydon","acct":"graydon@canada.masto.host"},{"id":"109319103690258674","username":"Remittancegirl","url":"https://mstdn.social/@Remittancegirl","acct":"Remittancegirl@mstdn.social"},{"id":"109311622589871026","username":"_L1vY_","url":"https://mstdn.social/@_L1vY_","acct":"_L1vY_@mstdn.social"},{"id":"109302297160255952","username":"cstross","url":"https://wandering.shop/@cstross","acct":"cstross@wandering.shop"}],"tags":[],"emojis":[],"quote":null,"card":null,"poll":null,"quote_approval":{"automatic":[],"manual":[],"current_user":"denied"}},{"id":"111913440803509428","created_at":"2024-02-11T14:59:40.000Z","in_reply_to_id":"111912321377883057","in_reply_to_account_id":"110646615396244961","sensitive":false,"spoiler_text":"","visibility":"unlisted","language":"en","uri":"https://canada.masto.host/users/graydon/statuses/111913440425678103","url":"https://canada.masto.host/@graydon/111913440425678103","replies_count":3,"reblogs_count":0,"favourites_count":0,"quotes_count":0,"edited_at":null,"content":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan class=\"h-card\" translate=\"no\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https://cosocial.ca/@duncanlock\" class=\"u-url mention\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"\u003e@\u003cspan\u003eduncanlock\u003c/span\u003e\u003c/a\u003e\u003c/span\u003e \u003cspan class=\"h-card\" translate=\"no\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https://mstdn.social/@Remittancegirl\" class=\"u-url mention\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"\u003e@\u003cspan\u003eRemittancegirl\u003c/span\u003e\u003c/a\u003e\u003c/span\u003e \u003cspan class=\"h-card\" translate=\"no\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https://mstdn.social/@_L1vY_\" class=\"u-url mention\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"\u003e@\u003cspan\u003e_L1vY_\u003c/span\u003e\u003c/a\u003e\u003c/span\u003e \u003cspan class=\"h-card\" translate=\"no\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https://wandering.shop/@cstross\" class=\"u-url mention\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"\u003e@\u003cspan\u003ecstross\u003c/span\u003e\u003c/a\u003e\u003c/span\u003e Somewhere back in the neolithic, the desire to have more parties—sedentary agriculture to provide reliable beer ingredients—tips population and population density thresholds. It becomes possible to, and someone does, invent armies. Armies invent kings; kings maximize their return by making the army out of those for which there is no other use. The kings invent \"women, cattle, and slaves\" to pay the army, and priests, to explain why this is good.\u003c/p\u003e","reblog":null,"account":{"id":"109387673294092820","username":"graydon","acct":"graydon@canada.masto.host","display_name":"Graydon","locked":true,"bot":false,"discoverable":false,"indexable":false,"group":false,"created_at":"2022-11-22T00:00:00.000Z","note":"\u003cp\u003eStarts-with-X programmer. Fantasy author. The human social function emulator may not function as expected.  He/they. 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Three times Hugo Award winner, 30+ novels in print. Does not play well with Nazis. Abolish the monarchy!\u003c/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBorn in a world with 320ppm atmospheric CO2, 3.3 billion people.\u003c/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e@cstross.bsky.social on Bluesky\u003c/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eblog at: \u003ca href=\"https://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" translate=\"no\" target=\"_blank\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"invisible\"\u003ehttps://www.\u003c/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"ellipsis\"\u003eantipope.org/charlie/blog-stat\u003c/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"invisible\"\u003eic/\u003c/span\u003e\u003c/a\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFOLLOW REQUESTS: don't expect a reciprocal follow. And I will reject requests from folks with no profile and/or no tooting history.\u003c/p\u003e","url":"https://wandering.shop/@cstross","uri":"https://wandering.shop/users/cstross","avatar":"https://fsn1.your-objectstorage.com/drum/cache/accounts/avatars/109/302/297/160/255/952/original/47055d16133c7bac.jpeg","avatar_static":"https://fsn1.your-objectstorage.com/drum/cache/accounts/avatars/109/302/297/160/255/952/original/47055d16133c7bac.jpeg","header":"https://fsn1.your-objectstorage.com/drum/cache/accounts/headers/109/302/297/160/255/952/original/b96a5255ecb42dee.jpeg","header_static":"https://fsn1.your-objectstorage.com/drum/cache/accounts/headers/109/302/297/160/255/952/original/b96a5255ecb42dee.jpeg","followers_count":28230,"following_count":1640,"statuses_count":48940,"last_status_at":"2026-04-19","hide_collections":true,"emojis":[],"fields":[{"name":"Blog","value":"\u003ca href=\"https://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" translate=\"no\" target=\"_blank\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"invisible\"\u003ehttps://www.\u003c/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"ellipsis\"\u003eantipope.org/charlie/blog-stat\u003c/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"invisible\"\u003eic/\u003c/span\u003e\u003c/a\u003e","verified_at":null},{"name":"Twitter","value":"deleted: used to be \u003cspan class=\"h-card\" translate=\"no\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https://wandering.shop/@cstross\" class=\"u-url mention\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"\u003e@\u003cspan\u003ecstross\u003c/span\u003e\u003c/a\u003e\u003c/span\u003e","verified_at":null},{"name":"Facebook","value":"don't go there!","verified_at":null},{"name":"Bluesky","value":"@cstross.bsky.social","verified_at":null}]},"media_attachments":[],"mentions":[{"id":"109307566855671057","username":"pdcawley","url":"https://mendeddrum.org/@pdcawley","acct":"pdcawley"},{"id":"109387673294092820","username":"graydon","url":"https://canada.masto.host/@graydon","acct":"graydon@canada.masto.host"},{"id":"110646615396244961","username":"duncanlock","url":"https://cosocial.ca/@duncanlock","acct":"duncanlock@cosocial.ca"},{"id":"109319103690258674","username":"Remittancegirl","url":"https://mstdn.social/@Remittancegirl","acct":"Remittancegirl@mstdn.social"},{"id":"109311622589871026","username":"_L1vY_","url":"https://mstdn.social/@_L1vY_","acct":"_L1vY_@mstdn.social"}],"tags":[],"emojis":[],"quote":null,"card":null,"poll":null,"quote_approval":{"automatic":[],"manual":[],"current_user":"denied"}},{"id":"111913606322428315","created_at":"2024-02-11T15:41:51.000Z","in_reply_to_id":"111913581535025999","in_reply_to_account_id":"109302297160255952","sensitive":false,"spoiler_text":"","visibility":"unlisted","language":"en","uri":"https://canada.masto.host/users/graydon/statuses/111913606302477136","url":"https://canada.masto.host/@graydon/111913606302477136","replies_count":1,"reblogs_count":0,"favourites_count":0,"quotes_count":0,"edited_at":null,"content":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan class=\"h-card\" translate=\"no\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https://wandering.shop/@cstross\" class=\"u-url mention\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"\u003e@\u003cspan\u003ecstross\u003c/span\u003e\u003c/a\u003e\u003c/span\u003e \u003cspan class=\"h-card\" translate=\"no\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https://mendeddrum.org/@pdcawley\" class=\"u-url mention\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"\u003e@\u003cspan\u003epdcawley\u003c/span\u003e\u003c/a\u003e\u003c/span\u003e \u003cspan class=\"h-card\" translate=\"no\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https://cosocial.ca/@duncanlock\" class=\"u-url mention\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"\u003e@\u003cspan\u003eduncanlock\u003c/span\u003e\u003c/a\u003e\u003c/span\u003e \u003cspan class=\"h-card\" translate=\"no\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https://mstdn.social/@Remittancegirl\" class=\"u-url mention\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"\u003e@\u003cspan\u003eRemittancegirl\u003c/span\u003e\u003c/a\u003e\u003c/span\u003e \u003cspan class=\"h-card\" translate=\"no\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https://mstdn.social/@_L1vY_\" class=\"u-url mention\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"\u003e@\u003cspan\u003e_L1vY_\u003c/span\u003e\u003c/a\u003e\u003c/span\u003e It's likely that it wasn't universal because patriarchy took a long time to become fully established.\u003c/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBut, again, always, and forever, system under selection. Given enough iteration a tiny relative advantage—\"relative difference in statistical expectations of the rate of copying into the future\"—obliterates everything else. Entropy means all victories are transitory and all defeats are permanent. What is one with Thebes the Golden is gone.\u003c/p\u003e","reblog":null,"account":{"id":"109387673294092820","username":"graydon","acct":"graydon@canada.masto.host","display_name":"Graydon","locked":true,"bot":false,"discoverable":false,"indexable":false,"group":false,"created_at":"2022-11-22T00:00:00.000Z","note":"\u003cp\u003eStarts-with-X programmer. Fantasy author. The human social function emulator may not function as expected.  He/they. Born at 322 ppm\u003c/p\u003e","url":"https://canada.masto.host/@graydon","uri":"https://canada.masto.host/users/graydon","avatar":"https://fsn1.your-objectstorage.com/drum/cache/accounts/avatars/109/387/673/294/092/820/original/31b51bf935d08fd7.png","avatar_static":"https://fsn1.your-objectstorage.com/drum/cache/accounts/avatars/109/387/673/294/092/820/original/31b51bf935d08fd7.png","header":"https://mendeddrum.org/headers/original/missing.png","header_static":"https://mendeddrum.org/headers/original/missing.png","followers_count":1054,"following_count":126,"statuses_count":15247,"last_status_at":"2026-04-19","hide_collections":false,"emojis":[],"fields":[]},"media_attachments":[],"mentions":[{"id":"109302297160255952","username":"cstross","url":"https://wandering.shop/@cstross","acct":"cstross@wandering.shop"},{"id":"109307566855671057","username":"pdcawley","url":"https://mendeddrum.org/@pdcawley","acct":"pdcawley"},{"id":"110646615396244961","username":"duncanlock","url":"https://cosocial.ca/@duncanlock","acct":"duncanlock@cosocial.ca"},{"id":"109319103690258674","username":"Remittancegirl","url":"https://mstdn.social/@Remittancegirl","acct":"Remittancegirl@mstdn.social"},{"id":"109311622589871026","username":"_L1vY_","url":"https://mstdn.social/@_L1vY_","acct":"_L1vY_@mstdn.social"}],"tags":[],"emojis":[],"quote":null,"card":null,"poll":null,"quote_approval":{"automatic":[],"manual":[],"current_user":"denied"}},{"id":"111913884123237976","created_at":"2024-02-11T16:52:30.000Z","in_reply_to_id":"111913606322428315","in_reply_to_account_id":"109387673294092820","sensitive":false,"spoiler_text":"","visibility":"unlisted","language":"en","uri":"https://wandering.shop/users/joXn/statuses/111913884057767645","url":"https://wandering.shop/@joXn/111913884057767645","replies_count":1,"reblogs_count":0,"favourites_count":0,"quotes_count":0,"edited_at":null,"content":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan class=\"h-card\" translate=\"no\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https://canada.masto.host/@graydon\" class=\"u-url mention\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"\u003e@\u003cspan\u003egraydon\u003c/span\u003e\u003c/a\u003e\u003c/span\u003e \u003cspan class=\"h-card\" translate=\"no\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https://wandering.shop/@cstross\" class=\"u-url mention\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"\u003e@\u003cspan\u003ecstross\u003c/span\u003e\u003c/a\u003e\u003c/span\u003e \u003cspan class=\"h-card\" translate=\"no\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https://mendeddrum.org/@pdcawley\" class=\"u-url mention\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"\u003e@\u003cspan\u003epdcawley\u003c/span\u003e\u003c/a\u003e\u003c/span\u003e \u003cspan class=\"h-card\" translate=\"no\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https://cosocial.ca/@duncanlock\" class=\"u-url mention\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"\u003e@\u003cspan\u003eduncanlock\u003c/span\u003e\u003c/a\u003e\u003c/span\u003e \u003cspan class=\"h-card\" translate=\"no\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https://mstdn.social/@Remittancegirl\" class=\"u-url mention\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"\u003e@\u003cspan\u003eRemittancegirl\u003c/span\u003e\u003c/a\u003e\u003c/span\u003e \u003cspan class=\"h-card\" translate=\"no\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https://mstdn.social/@_L1vY_\" class=\"u-url mention\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"\u003e@\u003cspan\u003e_L1vY_\u003c/span\u003e\u003c/a\u003e\u003c/span\u003e \u003cbr\u003eMy personal suspicion is that large-cities + no-army was doomed as soon as the first round of really significant famines caused massive individual and cultural trauma. I would imagine that the first time your city and its neighbours and their neighbours ... all see 1/3 of their population die of starvation sparks a determination to never let that happen to you again, no matter the consequences.\u003c/p\u003e","reblog":null,"account":{"id":"109582473594132544","username":"joXn","acct":"joXn@wandering.shop","display_name":"a wandering 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class=\"h-card\" translate=\"no\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https://canada.masto.host/@graydon\" class=\"u-url mention\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"\u003e@\u003cspan\u003egraydon\u003c/span\u003e\u003c/a\u003e\u003c/span\u003e \u003cspan class=\"h-card\" translate=\"no\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https://wandering.shop/@cstross\" class=\"u-url mention\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"\u003e@\u003cspan\u003ecstross\u003c/span\u003e\u003c/a\u003e\u003c/span\u003e \u003cspan class=\"h-card\" translate=\"no\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https://mendeddrum.org/@pdcawley\" class=\"u-url mention\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"\u003e@\u003cspan\u003epdcawley\u003c/span\u003e\u003c/a\u003e\u003c/span\u003e \u003cspan class=\"h-card\" translate=\"no\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https://cosocial.ca/@duncanlock\" class=\"u-url mention\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"\u003e@\u003cspan\u003eduncanlock\u003c/span\u003e\u003c/a\u003e\u003c/span\u003e \u003cspan class=\"h-card\" translate=\"no\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https://mstdn.social/@Remittancegirl\" class=\"u-url mention\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"\u003e@\u003cspan\u003eRemittancegirl\u003c/span\u003e\u003c/a\u003e\u003c/span\u003e \u003cspan class=\"h-card\" translate=\"no\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https://mstdn.social/@_L1vY_\" class=\"u-url mention\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"\u003e@\u003cspan\u003e_L1vY_\u003c/span\u003e\u003c/a\u003e\u003c/span\u003e \u003c/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIt's clear from the Torah at least that an entire culture had stories about being willing to accept eventual slavery rather than starve to death.\u003c/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAnd on the other side of the world, it's clear from Chinese political and religious thinkers like Confucius and contemporaries that one of the signs that Chinese monarchs and emperors held the mandate of heaven was the lack of people starving to death.\u003c/p\u003e","reblog":null,"account":{"id":"109582473594132544","username":"joXn","acct":"joXn@wandering.shop","display_name":"a wandering 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class=\"h-card\" translate=\"no\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https://wandering.shop/@joXn\" class=\"u-url mention\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"\u003e@\u003cspan\u003ejoXn\u003c/span\u003e\u003c/a\u003e\u003c/span\u003e \u003cspan class=\"h-card\" translate=\"no\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https://wandering.shop/@cstross\" class=\"u-url mention\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"\u003e@\u003cspan\u003ecstross\u003c/span\u003e\u003c/a\u003e\u003c/span\u003e \u003cspan class=\"h-card\" translate=\"no\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https://mendeddrum.org/@pdcawley\" class=\"u-url mention\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"\u003e@\u003cspan\u003epdcawley\u003c/span\u003e\u003c/a\u003e\u003c/span\u003e \u003cspan class=\"h-card\" translate=\"no\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https://cosocial.ca/@duncanlock\" class=\"u-url mention\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"\u003e@\u003cspan\u003eduncanlock\u003c/span\u003e\u003c/a\u003e\u003c/span\u003e \u003cspan class=\"h-card\" translate=\"no\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https://mstdn.social/@Remittancegirl\" class=\"u-url mention\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"\u003e@\u003cspan\u003eRemittancegirl\u003c/span\u003e\u003c/a\u003e\u003c/span\u003e \u003cspan class=\"h-card\" translate=\"no\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https://mstdn.social/@_L1vY_\" class=\"u-url mention\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"\u003e@\u003cspan\u003e_L1vY_\u003c/span\u003e\u003c/a\u003e\u003c/span\u003e Once you go over the bad-year carrying capacity, you have this problem of starvation. If you don't go over the bad-year carrying capacity, you haven't got the population to defend yourself from the neighbours, who have gone way over and used the surplus population to have an army.\u003c/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eJust because there's selection pressure for it doesn't mean you want it or it's optimal in any sense, but it does mean it's difficult to get rid of it.\u003c/p\u003e","reblog":null,"account":{"id":"109387673294092820","username":"graydon","acct":"graydon@canada.masto.host","display_name":"Graydon","locked":true,"bot":false,"discoverable":false,"indexable":false,"group":false,"created_at":"2022-11-22T00:00:00.000Z","note":"\u003cp\u003eStarts-with-X programmer. Fantasy author. The human social function emulator may not function as expected.  He/they. 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