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I am not sure that the lens of what you label "evolutionary success" is useful in any way. Would you rather a billion humans in Elysium or a trillion humans in
by snet0 5y ago
I am not sure that the lens of what you label "evolutionary success" is useful in any way. Would you rather a billion humans in Elysium or a trillion humans in Hades?
- chrisco255 5y agoThe big question: did we cultivate agriculture or did agriculture cultivate us? There wouldn't be 7 billion humans without industrial agriculture. You wouldn't exist. I wouldn't exist.
- narrator 5y agoAnts have a symbiotic fungus in their gut that they use to digest food. We have corn that we use to digest sunlight. Chickens that could not survive on their own now are the way we can turn carbohydrates into protein. Computers turn electricity into cognition. We will probably take chickens and corn with us to other planets.