(September 11, 2013 at 3:54 pm)Heir Apparent Wrote: By that point I would also hope that as a "human race" we would have agreed that religion isn't getting us anywhere (and fast!) and advancement is far more important.
Members of human race instinctively try to screw the race in order to get ahead within the race. This is why "profit maximization" is considered a much more realistic objective function in economic modeling than "global optimization".