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Love the speech like any other nerd, but I must say Agent Smith is wrong about it all. Mammals do not "reach equilibrium" on their own. Check out some rat infe
by glofish 4y ago
Love the speech like any other nerd, but I must say Agent Smith is wrong about it all.
Mammals do not "reach equilibrium" on their own. Check out some rat infestation videos on farms.
If anything viruses show more moderation. At any given moment we have of various flu, cold etc viruses around us, in our nose, gut, tongue, yet most of the time we do just fine. It is not the "amount" of virus around you that matters.
Not to mention in most parts of the world populations are declining, and rapidly at that. We have probably already passed the peak-child.
- crooked-v 4y agoFor another example, deer without enough natural predators around will end up in massive boom/bust cycles as the population explodes, strips every plant around bare, and then mostly dies off from starvation.
- satvikpendem 4y agoPerhaps they reach equilibrium in the long term. But then again, that's true of any* system given the 2nd law of thermodynamics. *well, not really any, but close enough.