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The part about baboons was where the post should be cut.
Too many good stories are ruined this way on lesswrong.
Personally, I don't think I would have understood the point he was trying to make if it had ended there.
Sure, just ending on "Until they weren't." would have killed.
But "ruined" is too much. The links are useful to people who don't already know them. And there's an elephant-chain story you might like at the bottom.
Many of his later points about slavery, smallpox, religion etc. were extremely dubious or forced at best. It was literally painful to read that part after awesome part about baboons. And Singularity Institute self-congratulations were even worse than that.
The elephant chain story on the other hand was good.
I like it exactly the way it is.