Let's imagine you absolutely can't get away from the people whose ideas you can't stand except by turning off the brains that are making those ideas. Living in the comment section of youtube, for all practical purposes.
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True within family groups only, though. It becomes remarkably different otherwise- humans seem to have two very distinct sets of behavior for dealing with "in-tribe" and "out-of-tribe" interactions. Unless you can figure out a way to make someone think of a total stranger as "in-tribe", they're not going to be treated like family.
Next came the great wars to get rid of those useless bastards. Even the most powerful king needed human serfs. When humans need nothing but machines, the to tolerate your neighbor grows a bit slim. Human society may start to resemble the Olympian pantheon- petty grudges backed with immense power in a post-scarcity society.
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