Azeem Azhar (@exponentialview): "10,000 years of data shows that civilizations grow until they hit an information-processing ceiling. Then they invent new tools like writing, currency, bureaucracy… or collapse. We are at one of those ceilings now. https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-020-16035-9"

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10,000 years of data shows that civilizations grow until they hit an information-processing ceiling. Then they invent new tools like writing, currency, bureaucracy… or collapse. We are at one of those ceilings now.

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Scale and information-processing thresholds in Holocene social evolution - Nature Communications

The Seshat database has made it possible to reveal large-scale patterns in human cultural evolution. Here, Shin et al. investigate transitions in social complexity and find alternating thresholds of polity size and information processing required for further sociopolitical development.

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