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Re:Placing #1 in Advent of Code with GPT-3 by gherkinnn on Sunday December 04, 2022 @11:10AM (#33854889)
And back then you’d break a leg foraging, no way to set it, and be a cripple for the rest if your life. Fab.
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Re:Placing #1 in Advent of Code with GPT-3 by bryan_w on Sunday December 04, 2022 @12:32PM (#33855681)
And if "the gods" decided your part of the world was to be stricken with drought, well, it was game over for you.
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Re:Placing #1 in Advent of Code with GPT-3 by shafyy on Sunday December 04, 2022 @01:01PM (#33855975)
Not true. Foragers were quite resilient to stuff like drought, because they could just move along and ate foods from many different sources. Drought etc. started to become a real problem only once people were dependent on agriculture.
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