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Scientists Simulate Alien Civilizations, Find They Keep Dying From Climate Change (futurism.com)

submitted 2 months ago by Espiritdescali to c/futurology

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[–] samus12345@lemmy.world 9 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

Maybe every time sapient life manages to evolve to dominate a planet, being selfish pricks like us is the only way their species was able to survive to get to that point, so they always end up destroying themselves. Would explain the Fermi paradox.

[–] jonne@infosec.pub 4 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (2 children)

I feel this is a very anthropocentric view of things, projecting our own failings (some of which are coded in our genes) and assuming they're some kind of universal law of nature.

It's basically assuming that somehow every intelligent species would choose capitalism as their organising principle, something we've only 'decided' on 200 years ago.

[–] Waraugh@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 2 months ago (1 children)

This seems like projection, they stated being selfish in order to survive, that exists without capitalism and isn’t limited to humans in any way.

[–] samus12345@lemmy.world 2 points 2 months ago

There's also the possibility that a species managed to live more in harmony with nature and just never made it off the planet. The point is that nobody seems to have been able to create an interplanetary civilization in the observable universe.