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If it's a copy of the same thing then any measure that works against one would work against all. Other ways of reproduction add randomness and mutations which m
by throwaway290 3y ago
If it's a copy of the same thing then any measure that works against one would work against all. Other ways of reproduction add randomness and mutations which make it difficult
- closetnerd 3y agoPoint being you gotta get your measure to the millions of other clones.
- zimpenfish 3y ago> any measure that works against one would work against all Modulo any environmental or self-mutation factors, I suppose? Might be that a tick which sucks blood from deer with XYZ picks up a parasite or bacteria which protects it against your measure. Or one crawls through some chemical goop / radioactive slop / gets hit by a cosmic ray etc. and gets a mutation which helps. (Both fairly unlikely, I'll grant, but when you're dealing with millions or billions of ticks, unlikely is likely to happen a lot.)
- throwaway290 3y agoYeah it would be modulo those.