Christopher Boehm
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Christopher Boehm is a recurring person in the Astral Codex Ten archive, appearing 2 times across 2 issues between June 10, 2022 and August 08, 2024. The archive places it in contexts such as “the evolutionary anthropologist Christopher Boehm came to a similar conclusion”; “according to Christopher Boehm (c.f. “Hierarchy in the Forest”) it’s a key group strategy”. It most often appears alongside Europe, Twitter, 10240.
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- Category: People
- Mention count: 2
- Issue count: 2
- First seen: June 10, 2022
- Last seen: August 08, 2024
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- Europe (2 shared issues)
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- Twitter (2 shared issues)
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- 10240 (1 shared issues)
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- 4chan (1 shared issues)
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- 50,000 BC (1 shared issues)
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- @slatestarcodex (1 shared issues)
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- Acemoglu & Robinson (1 shared issues)
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- Achillead (1 shared issues)
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- Achilles (1 shared issues)
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- Africa (1 shared issues)
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- Agamemnon (1 shared issues)
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- Agememnon (1 shared issues)
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Recovered passages from the original issue text. When the raw archive preserved outbound links inside the source passage, they are listed directly under the quote.
And the evolutionary anthropologist Christopher Boehm came to a similar conclusion:
This is the intuition at the heart of left-wing politics, and at least according to Christopher Boehm (c.f. “Hierarchy in the Forest”) it’s a key group strategy that helped our homo ancestors diverge from alpha male dominance model beloved by Nietzscheans and actually practiced by most other great apes. In human foraging societies, people who get too powerful are gently cut down to size, and if they don’t get the message, killed. This protects group members from domination by individuals or cliques.