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I have a population of shrimp that have been breeding in my aquarium for quite some time now. They spend most of their time picking through detritus and otherwi
by 0des 5y ago
I have a population of shrimp that have been breeding in my aquarium for quite some time now. They spend most of their time picking through detritus and otherwise managing the cleanliness of the rocks and sandbed. I'm curious if their 'meatiness' has something to do with how rapidly they grow and reproduce and the size of the clutches involved. A single female can have around 100 eggs or more attached to the underside of her belly, producing that many eggs has to require a decent amount of calories. Another hypothesis is that they appear to be detrivores, and aside from the snails co-habitating with them, they have very little competition for a seemingly endless supply of fish poop and plants to munch on. The variety I have are clear, so it's quite interesting to watch their inner workings as they eat and reproduce. Where you'd expect the "brain" to be, they have a stomach that is constantly engaged in some type of basic peristaltic motion that can pause itself when they are alerted or startled, unlike in humans where this is an autonomic process as far as I know.
- a9h74j 5y agoCaton in Overshoot called humans a detritus species. Your very descriptive paragraph might be mined for metaphors. For example, in place of a brain, does humanity have going a peristaltic action connecting mines to landfills?
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- voz_ 5y agoYour username and comment make me think GPT3 wrote this. What do you mean?
- Farmadupe 5y agoOne of the most thought-provoking aspects of information theory is that when someone says something interesting in a small amount of words, it's indistinguishable from line noise. tldr; I've never read Overshoot either but I thought the post had an interesting perspective
- jacquesm 5y agoCan we cut the 'are you a robot, captain?' comments please? They are just a small step removed from 'are you a shill' (or worse: 'you are are a shill').
- taneq 5y agoThat’s just what a robot would say! /s That said, if you really can’t tell, does it matter? Shouldn’t we be judging comments on their content, not on who (or what) we think wrote them?
- BBC-vs-neolibs 5y agoIf you zoom out on humanity, it looks like a pump which pumps stuff from stripmines to landfills.
- a9h74j 5y agoMy post; your question at the very least is a fair one. I believe a hint of metaphor there compares humanity as a whole to a relatively autonomous process. If 'Caton' does not clarify a frame for you, compare a pessimistic Adam Curtis. Caton enters as a riff on 'detritis'.
- rbanffy 5y ago> unlike in humans where this is an autonomic process as far as I know. It’s just that we don’t have conscious control of it. Our autonomic functions will adapt to the environment we perceive and act without explicit direction from our conscious selves. Human is just the top layer of our brains. There are a ton of layered functions making it work.