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I wonder if it's illogical to think that all civilizations must always pick the most logical of the options

Logical and optimum are not the same.

Those civilisations that make too much illogical choices probably die off.

True. But it's not a binary choice. All it takes is to make one sub-optmial choice for the universe to be filled up with von-neuman probes in all star systems

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