The Neolithic Revolution, starting around 10,000 BCE, was the shift from small and mobile groups who survived by hunting wild animals and gathering wild plants to larger and more settled communities that grew crops and kept domesticated animals.

For the purposes of this debate, “children being raised communally” refers to a system in which childcare and upbringing are collectively managed by the wider community rather than individual parents. In this model, there are no designated primary caregivers or nuclear family units.

Cultural relativism is the view that the values and practices of a culture must be understood in their own cultural context and not judged according to the standards of a different culture.

Housing vouchers give low income households a fixed periodic sum that contributes to renting housing on private markets. Social housing, by contrast, is a system where the state directly builds, owns, and allocates housing units to low income households.

AI sycophancy is the tendency of Large Language Models (LLMs) to agree with, flatter, or validate user opinions, even at the expense of occasionally being misleading.