Recently as I learned more about the social context for development of intelligence I updated further in favor of a future filter. I couldn’t understand why it would be useful enough to get a little more intelligent than being able to wear an animal skin for warmth and club a seal with a rock for food. But the reproductive benefits of going up the pecking order of the clan by way of clever plots seems pretty well supported and intuitively likely once I’d heard of it.
Recently as I learned more about the social context for development of intelligence I updated further in favor of a future filter. I couldn’t understand why it would be useful enough to get a little more intelligent than being able to wear an animal skin for warmth and club a seal with a rock for food. But the reproductive benefits of going up the pecking order of the clan by way of clever plots seems pretty well supported and intuitively likely once I’d heard of it.