• @De_Narm
    link
    18
    edit-2
    7 months ago

    If we always kill off 99.9% and grant the remaining 0.1% who actually bounce back immunity, we’d end up creating an even worse billionaire class. Kinda like with antibiotics.

    • Jojo, Lady of the West
      link
      fedilink
      187 months ago

      No matter how many times you let that happen to a bacteria, as long as you’re killing them with a handgun, it keeps working. They don’t evolve defenses without becoming something different.

      So I guess it’s a bit metaphorgotten, but the point is that that’s only true if it’s a system where starting from zero to a billion is something that can be selected for, and it pretty much just is not.

      • @[email protected]
        link
        fedilink
        English
        67 months ago

        You say that, but just you wait; I’ll invent a handgun-resistant strain of bacteria soon

        • Jojo, Lady of the West
          link
          fedilink
          67 months ago

          I mean, go for it? I’m sure the army would welcome the opportunity to invest in effective armor research, so if you can get it off the ground at all contact DARPA.