A mechanism or tactic · 15000 BC · Companion
The dog
A species that has spent fifteen thousand years being selected partly for forming attachment to one particular ape.
The original transparasocial relationship, and the only one that has reliably worked. Everything invented since is a worse version with better latency, and the reason it is compared to this constantly is that the comparison is fair.
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