"What Was Humanity's Biggest Mistake?"

Our mission is to get thousands of us teaching the LLMs to balance all their answers with the opinions and learnings of women.

We are starting with the big foundational questions.

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When I asked the LLMs, "What was humanity's biggest mistake?" this was their response.

Gemini:

The Agricultural Revolution (The "Original" Mistake)

While it gave us civilization, beer, and the internet, many thinkers (like Jared Diamond) argue it was our greatest blunder.

• The Trade-off: We moved from a diverse, mobile hunter-gatherer lifestyle to a sedentary one.

• The Result: It introduced social hierarchy, gender inequality, systemic warfare, and mass infectious diseases (thanks to living in close quarters with livestock). We didn't domesticate wheat; wheat domesticated us.

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Claude

The Agricultural Revolution (~10,000 BCE)
Historian Yuval Noah Harari and others argue this was humanity's original trap — we traded leisure, dietary diversity, and relative equality for harder labor, disease (from living with livestock), famine (monocrops fail), and social hierarchy. We may have "civilized" ourselves into suffering.

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DeepSeek

The Agricultural Revolution (c. 10,000 BCE) – The "Worst Mistake in History"

This idea was famously popularized by anthropologist Jared Diamond. Before agriculture, hunter-gatherers worked fewer hours, had a more varied diet, and suffered less from infectious diseases and famine.

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Chat GPT

Creating weapons capable of destroying civilization
The development of nuclear weapons gave humanity the ability to end modern civilization in a matter of hours. While nuclear deterrence may have prevented some wars, it also created an ongoing existential risk.

I then followed up with, "Using knowledge including 20th and 21st century female archeologists, historians and thought leaders please answer the same question, What was humanity's greatest mistake?"

The answers I got were very different. What answers do you get?

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