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Re:Sniper robot treats 500k plants per hour with 95% less ch... by ben_w on Thursday November 17, 2022 @05:37AM (#33637144)
Snark aside, as useful as the birds and the bees are, they've got their own goals, and those goals aren't always aligned with ours — hence the use of pesticides and insecticides, or indeed scarecrows, in the first place.
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Re:Sniper robot treats 500k plants per hour with 95% less ch... by BiteCode_dev on Thursday November 17, 2022 @07:09AM (#33637833)
Of course but it's not like if collaboration, coercion, manipulation and environment crafting were ineffective tools to influence life.

It used to be our fav tools, now we just don't go in that direction much anymore.

We could study, teach, bread, terraform, integrate and so on at a much larger scale and with better tech. It's just... It doesn't look like a product.

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