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Other creatures could provide security.
by vinceguidry 10y ago
Other creatures could provide security.
- throwanem 10y agoAgainst a really clever predator, perhaps with wings? Against accident and illness? Against a change in circumstance such that those overspecialized strategies no longer work sufficiently well or at all?
- vinceguidry 10y agoA colony could stockpile food for the interrim period where the backup could be trained up.
- throwanem 10y agoTrained up by whom? All that's left of the colony's institutional knowledge on the subject of provisioning is an owl pellet's worth of tiny bones and hair.
- vinceguidry 10y agoWith immortality, institutional knowledge doesn't have to go away. Everybody can know everything, and the specialist that has all the experience dies, then a new one can just be selected, and the whole colony can pick up the slack until the new specialist is experienced enough to do it all himself. Everybody becomes T-shaped.
- throwanem 10y agoSo immortality implies perfect recall, such that skills not exercised cease to grow rusty and fade with time?