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Except that is totally wrong. You are assuming that there is one bear, that you can escape the bear forever, that the bear is not hungry enough to eat everybody
by Veserv 5y ago
Except that is totally wrong. You are assuming that there is one bear, that you can escape the bear forever, that the bear is not hungry enough to eat everybody, and that the bears are not multiplying ferociously due to nearly unlimited supply of delicious food.
No, reality is more like the story of the dodo. A vast quantity of delicious prey that nobody was eating because nobody knew about them. Then they were discovered and some predators showed up but there were not enough to eat all of them. But then more and more predators showed up to exploit the vast untapped resource until they were all eaten.
We are still in the middle of that process which is borne out by the fact that the frequency of attacks has been increasing on the order of >100% per year and average demands per attack have been doing something similar. That is an utterly ferocious rate of growth that will soon be enough to attack not just the juiciest targets, but every profitable target in a few years.
Being slightly faster or slightly less delicious will not help when there are finally enough bears to eat everybody.