This is true. Now let's entertain for educational purposes, the idea of technology advancing to the point where one mind can actually build nearly everything and can advance beyond where this entire society would be, without similarly advanced methods.
Now if whoever gets those methods is the one who wins, this is entirely different scale and procedure that the previous levels, and we could have already lost the 'infinite' game without knowing it while someone else has the power to create every change you're noticing while reserving another kind of system for themselves.
Just putting it out there. Look around and you'll find more evidence and reason to entertain these ideas. Probably, out of context rather than a direct view, but they are there and people are talking. Elon Musks neuralink being a small link in a chain of inventions and technologies that change everything.
What if each society always gets to this point, and then eventually always gets to either that technology that can change everything in a beneficial way or destroy everyone permanently, and that is the true measure, not how many nogs this, or brain size that.
We do work together to invent that, but if someone else has control of something like that.
Then your talks of evolution are secondary and even arbitrary and inane if it is just a pixel of information under the thumb of a corporate giant that is controlling your dreams, your sub culture and even your come back argument without you knowing it.
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