Thanks for the link to Sarah Constantin’s post! I remember reading it a long time ago but couldn’t have found it again now if I had tried. It was another thing (along with Morris’s book) that made me update towards thinking that historical gender norms are heavily influenced by technology level and type. Evidence that technology type variation even within farming societies had major impacts on gender norms also seems like fairly strong support for Morris’ idea that the even larger variation between farming societies and foragers/industrialists can explain their different gender norms.
John Danaher’s work looks relevant to this topic, but I’m not convinced that his idea of collective/individual/artificial intelligence as the ideal types of future axiology space is cutting it in the right way. In particular, I have a hard time thinking of how you’d summarize historical value changes as movement in the area spanned by these types.
Thanks for the link to Sarah Constantin’s post! I remember reading it a long time ago but couldn’t have found it again now if I had tried. It was another thing (along with Morris’s book) that made me update towards thinking that historical gender norms are heavily influenced by technology level and type. Evidence that technology type variation even within farming societies had major impacts on gender norms also seems like fairly strong support for Morris’ idea that the even larger variation between farming societies and foragers/industrialists can explain their different gender norms.
John Danaher’s work looks relevant to this topic, but I’m not convinced that his idea of collective/individual/artificial intelligence as the ideal types of future axiology space is cutting it in the right way. In particular, I have a hard time thinking of how you’d summarize historical value changes as movement in the area spanned by these types.