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@saltywizard @qurlyjoe @falseknees
we really are. we're a scourge. we break the natural world's dictum of "use only what you need and save your energy"
we're like "nah we're going to waste like crazy and consume like crazy"
and that fucking worked
...so far
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the #evolution of any animal is always rewarding any mutation that cuts down on energy use. that will drive smaller more efficient brains like with birds
but us humans are weirdos in that we instead made bigger brains that use a lot of calories, but we used those bigger brains to hack the natural world and deliver us massive amounts of calories
we're the " #AI #dataCenter" model for evolution 🥴
@benroyce @falseknees
“we're the " #AI #dataCenter" model for evolution”
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@qurlyjoe @benroyce @falseknees
<dissonant chord emoji>
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@benroyce @qurlyjoe @falseknees Big brains are no fun to fly around with.
Homo Naledi was also getting smaller brains, on their way back into the trees. Perhaps to have faster response times between the branches, who will tell? Too bad that was a dead end as well.@PeterBlok @qurlyjoe @falseknees
simians say MORE BRAIN MORE POWER
and it works
but then we reach endgame where we dominate all and there's not much more to consume
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@falseknees I love this so much
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R relay@relay.infosec.exchange shared this topic
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@tamarasellman @leeloo @falseknees
and corvids return the favor up the size ladder
i mean on the issue of intelligence: we figured out how to ride horses
how terrifying would it be to see a bunch of eagles on the horizon ridden by crows?
give it a few millennia of evolution...
@benroyce @tamarasellman @leeloo @falseknees
We've had bald eagles on our farm for 15 years. Their tree blew down this winter, ruined the nest. I watch them rebuilding, I noticed that the female was in a tree next to the one the new nest was in, she was squawking & screeching at him while he was racing to find the next stick for the nest. Until it was done she never left her perch & she kept up a running dialog for every stick he brought back even rejecting those she didn't like.
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@benroyce @tamarasellman @leeloo @falseknees
We've had bald eagles on our farm for 15 years. Their tree blew down this winter, ruined the nest. I watch them rebuilding, I noticed that the female was in a tree next to the one the new nest was in, she was squawking & screeching at him while he was racing to find the next stick for the nest. Until it was done she never left her perch & she kept up a running dialog for every stick he brought back even rejecting those she didn't like.
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@benroyce @falseknees totally agree, but then, two of my 3 key spirit animals are birds (owl and woodpecker) and my IQ is up there in the sky as well, so...
@tamarasellman @benroyce @falseknees As a Kemetic Polytheist---Djehuty approves this message!
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@oldclumsy_nowmad @tamarasellman @leeloo @falseknees
i made an appointment at a hollywood studio
you and i are going to pitch our movie idea together
the pitch is going to be simple:
i say
"planet of the apes"
then you say
"but with birds"
they'll write us a check on the spot for $300 million dollars to make it
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@benroyce @oldclumsy_nowmad @leeloo @falseknees I want in on this as a new filmmaker. Just don’t make me hold the boom.
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@benroyce @oldclumsy_nowmad @leeloo @falseknees I want in on this as a new filmmaker. Just don’t make me hold the boom.
@tamarasellman @oldclumsy_nowmad @leeloo @falseknees
We're giving you a $300k audio budget so we can have drones holding the boom mic. Make sure you get the crows to read their lines properly and for them to stop messing around with the damn improvisation. What is it with crows and the endless mischief making?
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@tamarasellman @oldclumsy_nowmad @leeloo @falseknees
We're giving you a $300k audio budget so we can have drones holding the boom mic. Make sure you get the crows to read their lines properly and for them to stop messing around with the damn improvisation. What is it with crows and the endless mischief making?
@benroyce @oldclumsy_nowmad @leeloo @falseknees I can do that.
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@falseknees I saw a post on FB recently from a "science" page that shared about how whales aren't just singing, they are utilizing vibrations in their voices to forecast ocean currents 6 months in advance telling [us humans] that maybe they know more than "we" thought. I was offended at the notion that only humans understand seasons and that the post suggests whales can only predict up to 6 months from now.
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Bird neurons use three times less glucose than mammalian neurons
Birds have impressive cognitive abilities and show a high level of intelligence. Compared to mammals of about the same size, the brains of birds also contain many more neurons. Now a new study reported in Current Biology on September 8 helps to explain how birds can afford to maintain more brain cells: their neurons get by on less fuel in the form of glucose.
(phys.org)
1. bird brains (no pun intended) use 1/3 the glucose mammalian brains do
2. the neurons are packed tighter, are smaller
"the neurons consume less glucose—this could have been expected by differences in the size of their neurons," says Kaya von Eugen of Ruhr University Bochum, Germany. "But the magnitude of difference is so large that the size difference cannot be the only contributing factor"
birds are our cognitive superiors
they have more advanced CPUs
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Bird neurons use three times less glucose than mammalian neurons
Birds have impressive cognitive abilities and show a high level of intelligence. Compared to mammals of about the same size, the brains of birds also contain many more neurons. Now a new study reported in Current Biology on September 8 helps to explain how birds can afford to maintain more brain cells: their neurons get by on less fuel in the form of glucose.
(phys.org)
1. bird brains (no pun intended) use 1/3 the glucose mammalian brains do
2. the neurons are packed tighter, are smaller
"the neurons consume less glucose—this could have been expected by differences in the size of their neurons," says Kaya von Eugen of Ruhr University Bochum, Germany. "But the magnitude of difference is so large that the size difference cannot be the only contributing factor"
birds are our cognitive superiors
they have more advanced CPUs
@benroyce @falseknees Well this isn't fair. Now I want to upgrade my own CPU to the smaller process, but no upgrade package seems to be available.
Hey mad scientists out there, what are you even doing?
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@falseknees This reminds me of a fiction story I am writing about corvids that form communities and villages
