Interesting. Reminds me of a saberhagen novel about a beserker that crash lands on a planet, too damaged to fix itself or leave, and takes refuge in a cave. Humanoids find it and worship it as a god. This god directs them to stage mortal combat games among the greatest warriors from around the world.

These games go on for days, each victor killing the other, until only one remains, the greatest warrior on the entire planet.

He is led into the cave to claim his reward, whereupon the berserker kills him.

Berserkers are self-replicating machines that have one mission: to eradicate all life. Since this berserker was not strong enough to do that, he staged the games to weaken the species. He did what he could, given the circumstances.

If you do not mind a personal question ghost, I have been curious about something ever since I aw your name. There used to be a dude named Otto that posted here regularly. He was obviously not you because while Otto was great fun, he was a bit of a crackpot. Which you obviously are not.

What Otto your grandfather or something?

A little history

Otto1923 posted for awhile but got got banhammered when he told dick wolf to go fuck himself. He was also embroiled in the great zephyr sockwars, where zephyr was bombarded with hundreds of downvotes by sockpuppets calling themselves 'ghost of x' where x was all the zephyr sockpuppets that he had created, living or banned. Dozens and dozens of them. What a glorious time to be alive.

Otto came back, cleverly adopting the ghost moniker, and got assaulted by this sock army as well, seeing his rating drop from 4 to 2 in about half an hour. Obviously some sort of automation was afoot. He then created his own army and joined in the fight, against whom I don't remember as the perp commanding the ghost army was unknown.

Yes I am that crackpot and still believe there is a hidden Empire, controlled by a tribe of Leaders who found it necessary to control the hordes by dividing them up and compelling them to fight one another per the book of Enoch, Iliad, bible etc.

You gotta problem with that?

Otto will still interpret events in that manner from time to time when appropriate. But things I rail against here at physorg are laziness in researching ideas and opinions, liars; and of course psychopaths which are far more common than you might think.

And I don't think that doing so is in any way crackpottish. Rather, a civic duty.

BTW zephyr is still here while those who assaulted him are all apparently gone. A testament to the resilience of crackpots.

Or berserkers.

The predator-prey competition and mutual adaptation is the main driving factor of biodiversity. The parasites are also sort of predators.

Parasites can die, too. When they end up killing their host with no other prey in sight.
Happens all the time to websites...

Otto,
that was a pretty humorous "A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far away..." - type history lesson...:-)

Hmmmm. keeping the most useless, weakest member alive. Sounds like socialism.

Competitive exclusion suggests one species will outperform the others and drive them to extinction.
Human race?

Well TB. (can I call you tuberculosis?) I remember an observation of Chimpanzee tribes. The observers noticed that the biggest, strongest, meanest bull chimps attempted to monopolize the females in estrus.

The bull chimps wound up spending their time patrolling around their encampment, chasing away intruders and fighting with the other bulls.

Meanwhile (Oh, you've heard this one before?) the females were sneaking off into the bushes to mate with the runts of the tribe.

Cause evolution don't care about your infantile ideology. All that matters is surviving long enough to reproduce.

Well TB. (can I call you tuberculosis?) I remember an observation of Chimpanzee tribes. The observers noticed that the biggest, strongest, meanest bull chimps attempted to monopolize the females in estrus.

The bull chimps wound up spending their time patrolling around their encampment, chasing away intruders and fighting with the other bulls.

Meanwhile (Oh, you've heard this one before?) the females were sneaking off into the bushes to mate with the runts of the tribe.

Cause evolution don't care about your infantile ideology. All that matters is surviving long enough to reproduce.

All of which serves the Bonobo way - make love, not war...:-)

Otto,
that was a pretty humorous "A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far away..." - type history lesson...:-)
Danke wg I would be giving out more 5/5s but my android doesnt allow it.

"The jedi... must end" - Luke Skywalker