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Re:The Alpha Myth: How captive wolves led us astray by fhe on Tuesday January 28, 2025 @12:56AM (#42849296)
another analogy would be: aliens abducting a bunch of humans and recreating the Stanford Prison Experiment and write up on human society based on that, which ends-up reshaping alien culture.
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Re:The Alpha Myth: How captive wolves led us astray by d0mine on Tuesday January 28, 2025 @01:33AM (#42849496)
The results are likely to be different (aliens won't try to bias the same way original researchers did).
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Re:The Alpha Myth: How captive wolves led us astray by ninalanyon on Tuesday January 28, 2025 @04:25AM (#42850443)
Why not? Evolutionary pressure is likely to be the same elsewhere, why should we think that it will have different consequences?
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Re:The Alpha Myth: How captive wolves led us astray by pineaux on Tuesday January 28, 2025 @06:58AM (#42851368)
Dont you love Assembly-theory? Evolution is everywhere
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Re:The Alpha Myth: How captive wolves led us astray by zdw on Tuesday January 28, 2025 @09:12AM (#42852487)
I would buy this sci-fi book.
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Re:The Alpha Myth: How captive wolves led us astray by enragedcacti on Tuesday January 28, 2025 @10:10AM (#42853186)
The Mercy of Gods by James S.A. Corey is surprisingly close in concept. It's Book 1 of a trilogy by the authors of The Expanse.
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