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Comment by sgt101

6 days ago

Although, gradually, all over the world people chose that lifestyle rather than take their chances with the seasons and the hunt.

Chose is a little strong. They were forced into it because agricultural societies could field armies orders of magnitude larger than hunter/gatherers.

It's telling that the nobles of agricultural societies generally still hunted, and often reserved that privilege.

Exactly, and similarly people may adopt AI too, whether they like the aesthetics or not.

Mostly because if you settled down a tilled a field of barley you had a reliable source of beer. Finding beer in the wild was and still is an almost certain failure.

The roots of global civilization are brown and frothy.

  • So what you're telling me is that I am genetically predisposed to brew and drink beer?

    Explains a lot.

    Explains it to my satisfaction!