<!-- bryant-content-generator:start --> # At Ngogo, in the Kibale forest of western Uganda,... > At Ngogo, in the Kibale forest of western Uganda, the largest chimpanzee community ever studied tore itself in half, and the tearing was literal. A young adult male named Erroll was found with wounds that exposed bone, deep punctures across his body, massive blood loss and his genitals ripped open, and while he lay in that condition males from the opposing faction found him and attacked him again, finishing what the first assault had started. Elsewhere, long-term observation has recorded an entire neighboring community disappearing over a period of years, its males caught one by one while alone, held down, beaten, bitten and left to die of their wounds, until nothing remained of the group but its territory, which the victors then walked into and occupied. Translate the algorithm{Translate the chimpanzee war algorithm{ into human grammar and notice how embarrassingly familiar it becomes: **find weakness, achieve numerical superiority, isolate the target, attack at low personal cost, destroy the rival, occupy the space.** Then put on a suit and call it a merger.}} {{Give an ape overwhelming power, a defenseless enemy and something worth taking, and morality suddenly has a mathematics problem.}} **Source:** [[books/Chimping Out|Chimping Out]] ## Share on Social Media ``` “At Ngogo, in the Kibale forest of western Uganda, the largest chimpanzee community ever studied tore itself in half, and the tearing was literal. A young adult male named Erroll was found with wounds that exposed bone, deep punctures across his body, massive blood loss and his genitals ripped open, and while he lay in that condition males from the opposing faction found him and attacked him again, finishing what the first assault had started. Elsewhere, long-term observation has recorded an entire neighboring community disappearing over a period of years, its males caught one by one while alone, held down, beaten, bitten and left to die of their wounds, until nothing remained of the group but its territory, which the victors then walked into and occupied. Translate the algorithm into human grammar and notice how embarrassingly familiar it becomes: find weakness, achieve numerical superiority, isolate the target, attack at low personal cost, destroy the rival, occupy the space. Then put on a suit and call it a merger. Give an ape overwhelming power, a defenseless enemy and something worth taking, and morality suddenly has a mathematics problem.” — Bryant McGill https://bryantmcgill.com/passages/passages-ngogo-kibale-forest-suddenly-mathematics-problem ``` <!-- bryant-content-generator:end -->