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"Meanwhile, my System 2 has heard that all humans are at least 50th degree cousins"
Shouldn't that be "at most"?
Either could be used, with the same meaning. Humans are related at least as closely as that; humans are related at most as distantly as that. If you want the text to be more explicit, it is not enough to substitute one word for the other. One would have to include an indication of the direction one is facing, an indication of which side of that single point human relatedness is being said to lie on.
Maybe. But the number is wrong anyway.