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		bryan_w on Dec 4, 2022 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Placing #1 in Advent of Code with GPT-3 And if "the gods" decided your part of the world was to be stricken with drought, well, it was game over for you.

shafyy on Dec 4, 2022 [–]

Not true. Foragers were quite resilient to stuff like drought, because they could just move along and ate foods from many different sources. Drought etc. started to become a real problem only once people were dependent on agriculture.

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