Robin Hanson(@robinhanson):Nazis can be seen as trying to win Darwinian competition via organizing a nation sharing an ethnicity as a coalition, having that coalition initiate a war, and then going very big fast with that war's ambitions. What was Nazis biggest mistake? (A) Organizing a coalition at all to try to deliberately win the Darwinian competition together, (B) Using a nation sharing an ethnicity as their coalition unit to compete together via, (C) Using war, not commerce, art, etc., as their way/forum to fight/compete against other coalitions, or (D) In war, taking on too many big opponents too fast for a decent chance to win

2026.06.03 00:10

Nazis can be seen as trying to win Darwinian competition via organizing a nation sharing an ethnicity as a coalition, having that coalition initiate a war, and then going very big fast with that war's ambitions. What was Nazis biggest mistake? (A) Organizing a coalition at all to try to deliberately win the Darwinian competition together, (B) Using a nation sharing an ethnicity as their coalition unit to compete together via, (C) Using war, not commerce, art, etc., as their way/forum to fight/compete against other coalitions, or (D) In war, taking on too many big opponents too fast for a decent chance to win