The claim is about survival or the fittest being a thing that produces especially lot expansionist species.
I could argue in the same way that only species that manage to coordinate enough to have their spaceships fly make it to the stars. So there is a lower threshold of divisiveness and internal conflict under which we do not need to consider stuff. This would lead to think that any intelligent multimillenia life would be relatively peaceful.
For example in viruses while the spreadiest are infact the annoying ones, the fit virus also tends to be rather mild on those that carry it. If you are a grabby life which mandatorily needs to aquire more resources, if you ever get to a point where you can’t get them you will implode. This could happen for example being stuck in globalization before becoming interplanetary where the strategy of “just walk further into the horizon” stops working. Rome liked its war loot, but having more and more provinces makes upkeep more and more challenging. The “average state” is not especially explosive. Survival of the fittest by itself is not a reason to think the products would be explosive.
Well, in the cosmic scheme, civilization that are not expansionist and greedy control a smaller share of the universe and therefore matter less.
The claim is about survival or the fittest being a thing that produces especially lot expansionist species.
I could argue in the same way that only species that manage to coordinate enough to have their spaceships fly make it to the stars. So there is a lower threshold of divisiveness and internal conflict under which we do not need to consider stuff. This would lead to think that any intelligent multimillenia life would be relatively peaceful.
For example in viruses while the spreadiest are infact the annoying ones, the fit virus also tends to be rather mild on those that carry it. If you are a grabby life which mandatorily needs to aquire more resources, if you ever get to a point where you can’t get them you will implode. This could happen for example being stuck in globalization before becoming interplanetary where the strategy of “just walk further into the horizon” stops working. Rome liked its war loot, but having more and more provinces makes upkeep more and more challenging. The “average state” is not especially explosive. Survival of the fittest by itself is not a reason to think the products would be explosive.