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"Yeah, but apparently some do and I don't think we find worlds that drove themselves extinct."

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"Not so far no. They do have stats from Warp and Edda and Cube where there's not the sampling problem though."

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"Oh, that is reassuring - what share of civilizations get into a nuclear war in those -"

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"Of civilizations that invent nukes, nuke-equivalents, or worse, about one percent completely or nearly annihilate themselves and about twenty percent kill a big chunk of the population but don't approach extinction and more than that kill, like, a few cities."

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"Do they have a plan to, uh, manage planets they land on in that position?"

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"Which position, 'has invented nukes and isn't fully stable about it'?"

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"Yeah. If that's the one from which there's a 1% chance of extinguishing yourselves and a 20% chance of a serious blowout."

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"They're working on an improvement to the existing inadequate strategy."

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"That seems to be where they are with a lot of things. Well, it's something."

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"Yep. Why, any ideas?"

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"Are there identifiable differences among the sort of worlds that do this -"

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"Not that I saw skimming the data but maybe. Warp's got lots of theorists with variously supported ideas."

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"Once we have resurrection I want to interview all of the people involved in the decision processes that did it."

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"It takes a demon and a magic rock but it's doable for most species now."

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"I know. I'm excited."

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"What would you ask them?"

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"Hard to say without actually meeting them."

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Nod.

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"On a different note, Beach ready to start having trade relations and so forth?"

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"Do you want inefficient quantities of crudely hewn nacre jewelry, because we don't have much tradeable around at this point."

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"It's the principle. You could do concerts?"

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"We could but I'm told Elves are snobs."

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"True! But we'll be fascinated by a singing language."

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"All right. I can get you a poet to sing to you."

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"And people could fly around and send the view, Elves'll like that."

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