Discussion Simple game theory

[Arnold Schwarzwald]

life evolved so that we could all meet in the forum. nice to meet u babyboy

It all came down to this moment in time...

 

[Deleted member 564]

Obviously red. I do not trust people in this forum AT ALL. Red. Red. Red.

 

[Deleted member 564]

I'm genuinely triggered lol.

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Life didn't "evolve toward" intelligence like it's climbing some holy ladder to enlightenment. Evolution doesn't have goals. It has one single metric: whatever shit replicates more in the current environment wins.

Intelligence is expensive as fuck, big brains suck calories like a whore on rent day, make childbirth a horror movie, and half the time just lead to overthinking yourself into extinction (see: modern humans doomscrolling themselves into 0.8 TFR while bacteria and cockroaches laugh).

If "toward intelligence" was the plan, why the fuck are there still jellyfish? Why did dinosaurs dominate for 150 million years with brains the size of walnuts? Why do parasites routinely outsmart and hijack way more "advanced" hosts?

Intelligence is just one random hack that happened to be useful for some hairless apes on the African savanna for a hot second. Tomorrow a virus could wipe out every IQ above 85 and evolution would shrug and keep trucking with whatever's left.

Saying "life evolved toward intelligence" is like saying "rivers evolved toward making nice waterfalls for Instagram." Cute story, but physics and selection pressure don't give a fuck about your narrative.

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A lot of people like to think evolution is the "survival of the fittest" but really, it's just the "reproduction of the okay-est". That's all there is to it. Whoever manages to reproduce the most, or as you said: whatever shit replicates more in the current environment wins.

Some like to think life "evolved towards intelligence" because they view themselves as intelligent, and as you know, we are ego-centric AS FUCK!!!! Which, fair ig. We are so cute after all