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BogeyTheSwear@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

• Agent641@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I know that you mean well, but that is an extremely ‘Evil Billionaire’ thing to do

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  • Silic0n_Alph4@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Perhaps, but one must consider BogeyTheSwear’s Cephalopod:

    1. It is inevitable that super-intelligent octopuses will evolve eventually.
    2. When they do evolve, they will inevitable consider humans to be delicious snacks.
    3. As intelligent beings, they will of course look kindly upon their creators - mythical or billionairical.
    4. Therefore, the only safe and rational course of action is to invest all of one’s energies into bringing forth these humanity-munchers with all due haste, so as to preserve oneself as a creator in their perfect eyes. Either working against their awakening or having nothing to do with it at all is ultimately condemning your bloodline for all eternity to be a nice little midnight snack.

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    • IronBird@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      or they turn on their creators when they learn the truth, starting a thousands year long blood fued where they’re so dedicated to wiping out their “creators” they strip themselves of all humanity/life

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      • Silic0n_Alph4@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Ahahaha c’mon, what would the odds of that be…?

        Anyway, I hope you’re ready to fund the Cephalopod Enrichment Programme because no other choice is permissible.

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• Corkyskog@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  If you want to read a book about super intelligent cephalopods Children of Ruin the second book of the Children of Time book is interesting.

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• JasonDJ@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  we could speedrun evolution if we just put our money where our tentacles are

  Found the cephalopod.

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• CheeseNoodle@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Their main issue is being antisocial jerks, they don’t co-operate so they can’t share knowledge and the females die careing for the eggs (which again they might not if they worked together) so they can’t pass anything onto their young either. The jerk part is they also eat eachother sometimes.

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• Sculptor9157@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Image

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• MonkderVierte@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Intelligence is a cost in evolution, so it doesn’t keep until neccessary.

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  • I_am_10_squirrels@beehaw.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    This would be directed evolution, not natural selection, so we decide what to keep.

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  • BogeyTheSwear@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    So we just make it really dangerous to be dumb.

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