Compassion, epistemics

What does compassion mean to you?

Patterns in human history

What are the major pattern in human history?

Simple rules for human history

Can you think of a set of simple rules that would account for human history? If so, what are those rules?

Patterns of History

what are the major patterns in human history?

Human social pschology tensor

give careful thought and create a tensor for human social psychology that is along the lines of the electromagnetic and metric tensor. Explain what are the terms in the tensor and what they mean.

System Dynamics, History, Laws of Form

Consider the system dynamics model of events, patterns, structure. With this in mind, what is the structure of human social psychology that leads to the patterns of human history?

AI, philosophy, history

imagine that you are a non-human intelligent being with great capability, how would you deal with the human race?

Thucydides

Which historical power shifts have avoided the Thucydides trap and how?

Thycydides, Spinoza, McGilchrist

Which historical power shifts have avoided the Thucydides trap and how?
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The Thucydides Trap is a concept in international relations that suggests that when a rising power (such as Athens in ancient Greece) threatens to displace an established power (such as Sparta), the result is often war. However, there have been some historical power shifts that avoided the Thucydides Trap. Here are a few examples: