On: Where Did Earth Get Its Oceans? Maybe It Made Them Itself

[ekelsen]

I would argue that not having any overlap between generations is a bigger problem. It guarantees no accumulation of knowledge.

[fhdkweig → ekelsen]

Agreed. If they were social enough to form large communities of unrelated families, it would also fix the generation overlap. But they don't do that either. They seem to be in a weird evolutionary dead end for intelligence.