Oddbean new post about login | logout I agree with this. I think my only disagreement is whether it’s a flaw or a feature with tradeoffs. What I mean is if we didn’t have this characteristic I’m not sure we’d still be humans.
Seems the idea is that if people were more like deer, perhaps they would be too unruly to establish a civilization. But deer do commune amongst each other, learn from each other, etc. In contrast, I think the conquests of history can be thought of as a timeline of humans being domesticated into farmability.