Chris Kempes

It's certainly one of the major evolutionary transitions originally outlined in the first book on the subject. And along with human social groups, you know, we've been able to look at the growth of companies using the same sort of models that we use for organisms. And so we're pretty comfortable talking about companies as entities, as a new sort of entity that's on the planet.

It's certainly one of the major evolutionary transitions originally outlined in the first book on the subject. And along with human social groups, you know, we've been able to look at the growth of companies using the same sort of models that we use for organisms. And so we're pretty comfortable talking about companies as entities, as a new sort of entity that's on the planet.

And I think, you know, different types of AI also represent a major evolutionary transition, if not the Internet itself. Right. In all of these cases, we're taking lower level components and combining them into new architectures, right? So cities combine humans in new ways, inside new architectures.

And I think, you know, different types of AI also represent a major evolutionary transition, if not the Internet itself. Right. In all of these cases, we're taking lower level components and combining them into new architectures, right? So cities combine humans in new ways, inside new architectures.

The internet combines all sorts of things in new ways and new architectures, as do LLMs, as do human organizations. And so I think we're in the midst of many new types of individuals showing up on the planet, which is really interesting. And then finally, I would say that also just how humans are changing the selective dynamic of the planet is also apparent.

The internet combines all sorts of things in new ways and new architectures, as do LLMs, as do human organizations. And so I think we're in the midst of many new types of individuals showing up on the planet, which is really interesting. And then finally, I would say that also just how humans are changing the selective dynamic of the planet is also apparent.

Ron Milo has some really nice work over a few papers showing how much of the planet's biomass is associated with humans, either our own biomass or our crops or the animals that humans tend to eat. And it's an amazing fraction, and it doesn't look at all like any other ecology we've seen in the past over the course of the history of our Earth.

Ron Milo has some really nice work over a few papers showing how much of the planet's biomass is associated with humans, either our own biomass or our crops or the animals that humans tend to eat. And it's an amazing fraction, and it doesn't look at all like any other ecology we've seen in the past over the course of the history of our Earth.

And so I think that's already a case where the human technology, our ability to organize our environment and plan ahead and construct our own niche has led to this really radically different ecology, really radically different selective forces.

And so I think that's already a case where the human technology, our ability to organize our environment and plan ahead and construct our own niche has led to this really radically different ecology, really radically different selective forces.

I mean, who looking at the cow and chicken would predict these two are, these two organisms are going to grow to, um, completely surprising biomass densities, uh, 10,000 years from now, right? No, no, no normal ecology would predict that. Um, and why cows and not other, you know, mammals at the same size is, is a totally contingent story that is based on human preference and human technology.

I mean, who looking at the cow and chicken would predict these two are, these two organisms are going to grow to, um, completely surprising biomass densities, uh, 10,000 years from now, right? No, no, no normal ecology would predict that. Um, and why cows and not other, you know, mammals at the same size is, is a totally contingent story that is based on human preference and human technology.

So I think we are in this really interesting place where, um, We've created totally new selective pressures for our ecologies and where we're creating totally new types of entities. And it's where that all goes. I don't think we have theory for. I think it's we're all figuring out as we go sort of thing.

So I think we are in this really interesting place where, um, We've created totally new selective pressures for our ecologies and where we're creating totally new types of entities. And it's where that all goes. I don't think we have theory for. I think it's we're all figuring out as we go sort of thing.

And there's lots of reasons to be concerned about all sorts of different dimensions of the future. It's a very interesting time in the long evolution of this planet.

And there's lots of reasons to be concerned about all sorts of different dimensions of the future. It's a very interesting time in the long evolution of this planet.

Yeah, I think maybe from a efficiency perspective, just to say if you start to really understand one organism well, then you select on it and you pick it. I think there has, in general, and people have written about this, there is a trend towards humans eating less and less diverse things in time.

Yeah, I think maybe from a efficiency perspective, just to say if you start to really understand one organism well, then you select on it and you pick it. I think there has, in general, and people have written about this, there is a trend towards humans eating less and less diverse things in time.

And so, I mean, if you take, say, an original natural environment and how many different types of things we ate, You move to agriculture. You move to industrialized agriculture. Each of those steps, you're sort of eating less and less objects. So if you think about in the United States, the fraction of the diet that is corn is large. So that's targeting one species, one crop.

And so, I mean, if you take, say, an original natural environment and how many different types of things we ate, You move to agriculture. You move to industrialized agriculture. Each of those steps, you're sort of eating less and less objects. So if you think about in the United States, the fraction of the diet that is corn is large. So that's targeting one species, one crop.