This was written in 1966.

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Modelling the emergence of open-ended technological evolution Humans stand alone in terms of their potential to collectively and cumulatively improve technologies in an open-ended manner. This open-endedness provides societies with the ability to continually exp...

🚨🚨 New preprint 📜 with Mathieu Charbonneau (@matcharbonneau.bsky.social‬): Modelling the emergence of open-ended technological evolution (arxiv.org/abs/2508.04828). Feedback welcomed! #Evolution #Technology #Culture #OpenEnded #TechnologicalEvolution #CulturalEvolution 🧵: 1/29

What if we saw early stone tools not as static inventions, but as evolving ecosystems? The new project ECOLITHIC, led by @shumon.bsky.social takes this radical view, bridging #humanities & #lifesciences to explore hidden patterns in #technologicalevolution. Funded by @volkswagenstiftung.bsky.social

Ignoring the to-ing & fro-ing in the media about the threat/virtue of #AI (& the poor input quality of majority of it) isn't it preferable when we continue to be on the cusp of a #TechnologicalEvolution that we let humans have a decent go first?
After all, we did do most of the prep work for it.