When a machine makes an attribute irrelevant, the hierarchy built on that attribute loses its material basis, and its narrative then changes after a lag set by how children are raised, though even deeply embedded roles can move far within two centuries. Ansary, ch. 24 to 25: "physical strength lost much of its relevance except in professional sports and street crime"; "Thereupon, narratives related to gender began to change, adjusting to the new material reality"; the restriction "derived from no material necessity and served no social purpose"; the constellation preserving its identity "also generates a lag in the evolution of such forms"; one would expect gender roles to resist quick change, "In this, however, one would be mistaken"; norms "have not yet caught up." That AI is doing to the premium on cognitive skill what the machine did to the premium on strength, so standing built on analysis has lost its material basis while its narrative still holds for a generation, is Leo's step.

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once the machine permeated human affairs, physical strength lost much of its relevance except in professional sports and street crime.
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Thereupon, narratives related to gender began to change, adjusting to the new material reality.
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their restriction to the home derived from no material necessity and served no social purpose.
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It's the social constellation's way of preserving its own identity, which is to say, its very life. But this also generates a lag in the evolution of such forms.
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Gender roles being some of the most deeply embedded structures of human life, one would expect these to resist quick change. In this, however, one would be mistaken.
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social norms and emotional alignments have not yet caught up to this revolution in human culture.
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Nation-states hung on, though, hung on because nations were too deeply embedded in the human psyche to fade away easily.
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No one, yet, said they were a Fordian, or an Exonite, or a Googolite.

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