Loren Curtis Rauch

Tribal OS: How Social Machinery (Status, Shame, Coalition) Works, and What Breaks When It Scales

Modern humans run an inherited psychological operating system. Its deepest layer is conserved primate social architecture; call it the firmware. It sorts people into ours and theirs, then helps determine whom to copy, whom to submit to, whom to desire, and whom to tend. This machinery was calibrated in small, repeatedl...