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Biological survival often involves zero-sum competition, such as competition for food or mates.

Richard Socher · Humanity’s Last Invention — Richard Socher of Recursive · 14 Sept 2026

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“about the universe but maybe one thing i i do want to still say is like i think uh this sort of survival people think of it as a very scary thing because they come from again biological human uh survival which is uh like uh evolutionarily often created in zero-sum situations either i get the gazelle or you get the gazelle whoever gets it”
“that gets to live and the other people will starve and have nothing to eat and so we fight right and then like if you want to stay in the gene pool but there's a bigger bear you don't as the bear don't get to stay in the gene pool because a bigger bear gets all the ladies you know it's like i mean it's like you know in nature there's all kinds of things and you know humans eventually is less about strength and more about money and other things to stay in the gene pool like whatever it is like there's often like these zero-sum types of things and there's the reality of”
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