We hypothesize that these webs are a collective strategy to increase the "serendipity window" in time and in space for the colony.

I do think the AI hypewave will accelerate the corporate realization of just how many bullshit jobs there are, which will lead to major white collar job loss, not because AI will do the jobs better but because the jobs were superfluous in the first place.

as long as humans are mortal (and in charge of society), even if energy and production of worldly things goes to negligible cost, there persists the finite resource of human time. It is already the case for people with wealth. As long as there is scarcity of a valued resource, an economy can exist.

effect size? without any effect size claims, it is impossible to gauge importance of such findings.

and congrats to first author, postdoc Ana Lyons!