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		zo1 on July 12, 2014 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: A “nationwide gentrification effect” is segregatin... Because the beauty of a self-organizing system with emergent properties based on each agent's personal values shouldn't be appealing to a "techy"?

mpyne on July 13, 2014 [–]

It's just as appealing as watching self-organizing behavior in ants.

But I'm not an ant or a honeybee and I see no reason to think of my fellow humans as worker drones as opposed to a more familial social patterning. Even the elephants, lions and wolves can do that much...

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