Yes, The Gossip Trap is a great read! Here's an excerpt from the intro, for context: "This essay of mine won 1st place and $5,000 in Scott Alexander’s anonymo

Yes, The Gossip Trap is a great read! Here's an excerpt from the intro, for context: "This essay of mine won 1st place and $5,000 in Scott Alexander’s anonymous book review contest, which was hosted at Astral Codex Ten. It attempts to solve the “Sapient Paradox,” which asks: Given that humans have been around for 200,000 years, why did civilization take so long to get started? Why were we stuck in prehistory for so long?"