<!-- bryant-content-generator:start --> # Primatology offers the sober baseline: when two... > Primatology offers the sober baseline: when two populations compete for the same territory, the record runs from long coexistence to absorption to extermination, and the outcome depends on relative power, the price of conflict and whether each side has something the other needs. **Source:** [[articles/The Immediate AI Risk Is the Public|The Immediate AI Risk Is the Public]] ## Share on Social Media ``` “Primatology offers the sober baseline: when two populations compete for the same territory, the record runs from long coexistence to absorption to extermination, and the outcome depends on relative power, the price of conflict and whether each side has something the other needs.” — Bryant McGill https://bryantmcgill.com/quotes/quotes-primatology-offers-sober-side-something-needs ``` <!-- bryant-content-generator:end -->