PeterisP comments on The Octopus, the Dolphin and Us: a Great Filter tale - Less Wrong

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Comment author: PeterisP 04 September 2014 09:50:27PM 3 points [-]

I'd read it as an acknowledgement that any intelligence has a cost, and if your food is passive instead of antagonistic, then it's inefficient (and thus very unlikely) to put such resources into outsmarting it.