If you want to read a book about super intelligent cephalopods Children of Ruin the second book of the Children of Time book is interesting.
BogeyTheSwear@lemmy.zip 15 hours ago
If i was a .ulti Billionaire i would dedicate my vast wealth to building an Institute that breeds only the most intelligent octopi with each other.
They don’t live so long, so generations go by fast. I bet we could speedrun evolution of we just put our money where our tentacles are.
Corkyskog@sh.itjust.works 13 hours ago
JasonDJ@lemmy.zip 9 hours ago
we could speedrun evolution if we just put our money where our tentacles are
Found the cephalopod.
CheeseNoodle@lemmy.world 7 hours ago
Their main issue is being antisocial jerks, they don’t co-operate so they can’t share knowledge and the females die careing for the eggs (which again they might not if they worked together) so they can’t pass anything onto their young either. The jerk part is they also eat eachother sometimes.
MonkderVierte@lemmy.zip 13 hours ago
Intelligence is a cost in evolution, so it doesn’t keep until neccessary.
BogeyTheSwear@lemmy.zip 5 hours ago
So we just make it really dangerous to be dumb.
Agent641@lemmy.world 14 hours ago
I know that you mean well, but that is an extremely ‘Evil Billionaire’ thing to do
Silic0n_Alph4@lemmy.world 14 hours ago
Perhaps, but one must consider BogeyTheSwear’s Cephalopod:
IronBird@lemmy.world 7 hours ago
or they turn on their creators when they learn the truth, starting a thousands year long blood fued where they’re so dedicated to wiping out their “creators” they strip themselves of all humanity/life
Silic0n_Alph4@lemmy.world 6 hours ago
Ahahaha c’mon, what would the odds of that be…?
Anyway, I hope you’re ready to fund the Cephalopod Enrichment Programme because no other choice is permissible.