I see where you're going with mediocre now. You're right, I was using it wrong. If I end up writing that, I'll choose other terms.
Your "mediocre" comes close to the SubGenius concept of Slack, as a natural pattern resisting paperclip maximization.
+1, would get rejected again!
This isn't the first time you've saved me the job of writing something by doing it better than I could. Getting this pearl for the price of the rejection of a mediocre pitch is more than I could have asked for.
Thank you, sincerely.
Your main thesis in the pitch remains unexplored though, the history of animals/humans as pre-robotic robots. That’s a tougher nut still worth cracking. This was more of a prequel bunnytrail.
Guy in last course had an angle on that via economics of slavery but he never finished