CTrees
Chasing the ring
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The others left off the excellent quote:
"An Outside Context Problem was the sort of thing most civilisations encountered just once, and which they tended to encounter rather in the same way a sentence encountered a full stop."
Essentially, an OCP isn't just a problem a society is unprepared for, but one which they have no reason to believe could exist. Say, if our world was suddenly attacked by the Red Lantern Corps, or historically, certain native populations dealing with invasion by people with guns.