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.

[–] Silentiea@lemmy.blahaj.zone 18 points 5 months ago (1 children)

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.

[–] ReveredOxygen@sh.itjust.works 6 points 5 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] Silentiea@lemmy.blahaj.zone 6 points 5 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.