I would assume the expectation came about after WW2 where losing meant devastating ramifications for the losing party.
On the other hand in a situation where warfare is considered with less weight and investment feels like it’ll embolden states to return to a state of frequent warfare.
One mechanism that wasn't described in the article and for fairness I know little about when it comes to prehistoric hominids is the role of community splits forcing certain members to go out or die trying to establish hegemony.
I wouldn’t expect them to study that. This article is about second-order change in population density coinciding with the rate of environmental change.
Spam cannot be dealt with. Illicit material sticking around is a feature. There is an economic incentive for material that creates a liability for the “seeders” to not be kept around.
To give it as much credit as I can: individual peers could do their own content moderation, deciding what they do and don't want to be around, and if enough people decide something shouldn't be there, it'll basically drop out of availability. But that goes against the whole “market forces” philosophy that it's supposedly based on, and also goes against some of the claims that the proponents of these systems keep making.
It's just a bad system, not even taking into account the pointless CPU cycle wastage. Blockchains sort of make sense for something where each block is based on the previous, but for arbitrary pieces of data? Chaining them like that is faddish unless it brings real concrete benefits over just doing the same thing without blockchain.
I never thought that I would say this, but Mozilla's failure to evolve empowering user-centric clients from the great initial success of firefox and thunderbird is beginning to look suspect.
Increasingly they look like a tired alibi for a dystopic status-quo
If you right click and go to the open with menu and scroll to other, there's a checkbox with the finder window called "Always Open With". This way you don't need to remember which button to hold down.
On the other hand in a situation where warfare is considered with less weight and investment feels like it’ll embolden states to return to a state of frequent warfare.