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

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[–] [email protected] 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.

[–] [email protected] 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.

[–] [email protected] 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.