@niplav And yet by resorting to physical violence and bashing his head with the heaviest object on hand, are you not behaving in accordance with his primitivist philosophy? "Grug smash" is a core concept of primitivism.
forecasting questions can be divided into “we have an indicator, let the people forecast it” and “we have a question, let's find an indicator/indicators to concretise it”
ancestral social environment probably most comparable with today's high school – everybody is very near each other a lot of the time, high amounts of common knowledge. differences: existence of age gaps in AE, more common tasks
looking forward to the moment when i can first smack someone with my copy of Grand Futures because they're being an annoying pseudo-primitivist – the satisfying sound of a thousand pages of industrial strength paper against their weak biological skull