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Maybe we are the bug. A while back this guy discovered that his Quake bots that had been running for 4 years found the perfect strategy to survival, which was to stop fighting. In contrast, look at what humanity is doing.

Assuming the purpose of life is not to self destruct then we most certainly have a bug in our system. Whoever wrote Quake wrote better code than "God".



> A while back this guy discovered that his Quake bots that had been running for 4 years found the perfect strategy to survival, which was to stop fighting.

That sounds fascinating but also a bit hard to believe. Can you give a link to that story?


You're right to be skeptical. It made the rounds last month, but it turned out to be a hoax:

http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/2013/07/01/quake-3-arena-wor...





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