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Re:Radioactive Hulk of Carrier USS Independence Found Off Sa... by adventured on Sunday May 12, 2019 @02:06PM (#19893442)
> If you were an alien species and observing the earth from afar it's pretty insane how foolish we look.

There's no reason to actually believe that those very aliens aren't just as foolish and survived, competed and advanced in part through a process of killing their fellow tribes of aliens to reach supremacy.

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Re:Radioactive Hulk of Carrier USS Independence Found Off Sa... by TeMPOraL on Sunday May 12, 2019 @03:45PM (#19894056)
In fact, if game theory is something to go by, these problems aren't "human stupidity", but they're inherent in any system that has thinking agents who have values, and no way to immediately, simultaneously and fully meet all of them. The hypothetical aliens would have some of those issues too.
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