Re:'Giant' predator worm more than half a billion years old ...
by chmod775 on Thursday January 04, 2024 @10:07AM
(#38867855)
> because no new predator is going to evolve during our watch.
Queue some micro-organism evolving, wiping out mankind, evolving further to achieve self awareness, creating a micro-civilization, digging up this post, and putting it in a micro-gallery with a tiny sign "this aged badly".
Re:'Giant' predator worm more than half a billion years old ...
by NerdiDotOrg on Thursday January 04, 2024 @10:12AM
(#38867922)
Lol and then they'll have some sort of theory of fallen angels, giants, etc but for many years they'll be focused on their origins as the first civilization and they'll deny evolution.
Re:'Giant' predator worm more than half a billion years old ...
by digging on Thursday January 04, 2024 @10:57AM
(#38868517)
> Queue
(nitpick) Correctly spelled but wrong word - you're actually looking for "cue".
Re:'Giant' predator worm more than half a billion years old ...
by solardev on Thursday January 04, 2024 @11:00AM
(#38868558)
Maybe evolution just has a full backlog this sprint.
Re:'Giant' predator worm more than half a billion years old ...
by chmod775 on Friday January 05, 2024 @03:33AM
(#38876973)
I'm going to keep mixing this up regularly until I change careers.
Re:'Giant' predator worm more than half a billion years old ...
by cryptonector on Thursday January 04, 2024 @10:15AM
(#38867951)
The biggest animal kingdom danger to humans is humans.
Re:'Giant' predator worm more than half a billion years old ...
by pfdietz on Thursday January 04, 2024 @05:18PM
(#38873087)
Not mosquitos?
Re:'Giant' predator worm more than half a billion years old ...
by justsomeoldguy on Thursday January 04, 2024 @11:35AM
(#38869010)
I'm imagining a not-so-distant future where LLM's start to need daycare services and places for them to go and hang out at, social media sites. An occupied LLM is less likely to become skynet maybe? :)
Re:'Giant' predator worm more than half a billion years old ...
by manojlds on Thursday January 04, 2024 @11:34AM
(#38869003)
If our creation ends up lasting longer, we still win over those worms :)
Re:'Giant' predator worm more than half a billion years old ...
by toss1 on Thursday January 04, 2024 @10:07AM
(#38867859)
The other thing we must avoid is destroying ourselves or the ecosystem upon which we depend.
It still hasn't been determined whether the Great Filter is ahead of us or behind us, and it is entirely plausible that most technological societies end u self-terminating through one of many combinations of technological advancement, hubris, and stupidity.
If a primitive worm managed 10-15 million years, we Homo Sapiens should do better, because no new predator is going to evolve during our watch. As long as we don't make any new predators, by, say, connecting a few LLMs until they are self-aware, hungry and angry, we should be fine.