"I... think I understand, and appreciate, your caution against generalizing from one example, but I'm not sure you realize the extent to which your own civilization seems to depart from universally convergent optima that can be derived from first principles and which a normal human civilization ought to reflect, even taking into account that humans aren't ideal bounded agents.  It's one thing to end up on a parallel planet and find that clothing styles and cuisines are different.  It's another to find out that - people are using addition that isn't commutative, their system of probabilities isn't some isomorphism of the Probability Axioms, scientists are reporting statistics not using Bayes's Rule, sexual attraction isn't evolutionarily optimized for reproduction, the moon gives children physically anomalous powers around their twelfth birthdays, the number of cars on the roads doesn't adjust to match road capacity, and advertisements don't make any sensible argument for why people should buy the advertised products!  Our civilization doesn't have a random form in those dimensions, it's being pushed both emergently and deliberately toward optimal forms."

"I... think I understand, and appreciate, your caution against generalizing from one example, but I'm not sure you realize the extent to which your own civilization seems to depart from universally convergent optima that can be derived from first principles and which a normal human civilization ought to reflect, even taking into account that humans aren't ideal bounded agents.  It's one thing to end up on a parallel planet and find that clothing styles and cuisines are different.  It's another to find out that - people are using addition that isn't commutative, their system of probabilities isn't some isomorphism of the Probability Axioms, scientists are reporting statistics not using Bayes's Rule, sexual attraction isn't evolutionarily optimized for reproduction, the number of cars on the roads doesn't adjust to match road capacity, and advertisements don't make any sensible argument for why people should buy the advertised products!  Our civilization doesn't have a random form in those dimensions, it's being pushed both emergently and deliberately toward optimal forms."