social learning ⁽³⁾

I have just been reminded that Sargon was the first known ruler of the known world. This happened before empires were a thing. It was at a time when kingdoms were not yet available to be captured and incorporated. Imperialists had to make do with cities. This was in a post about Sargon's daughter Enheduanna by Historical Snapshots. Enheduanna being…

This avenue of reading began like my discovery of the creator or promoter of the umbrella term ‘Man the hunter’ in two ways. It was a family hand-me down book and it was the writer’s second book. See Robert Ardrey's The Territorial Imperative (substack.com). In Joseph Henrich’s case the second book has made a bigger splash than the first, and…

"Machine learning maps social learning not individual intelligence" may appear as not saying very much, especially if social learning is unknown or just hard to notice because it is like water to fish, essential but taken for granted. Social learning is a grab-all term for deliberate, emergent & surprising processes, intentional or unintended, that arise as humans organize their lives…