Nature is Metal

[taiwan_girl]

Giant centipede, after having babies, allows them to eat her for their nourishment. :eek

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[jon-nyc]

Based.

[Horace]

Genes want to survive. Organisms only think they want to survive, because that thought is useful to the genes.

[Klaus]

I'd say that genes are just as dispassionate as LLMs are. It just happens to be the case that genes that do not contribute to replicating themselves disappear after a while.

[taiwan_girl]

The teeth of the Maine blood worm are made from @copper. (Just joking - made from real copper)

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[Axtremus]

@taiwan_girl said in Nature is Metal:

Giant centipede, after having babies, allows them to eat her for their nourishment. :eek

Cannot tell from the video whether babies eat each other too. Are the babies smart enough to distinguish mother from siblings?

[taiwan_girl]

@Axtremus In my very small research, it appears that

• the mother is already dying when giving birth. So, maybe gives off some sort of smell the babies recognize?

• there is some bacteria in the mother that helps the babies digest things, which I guess they by instinct know.

So, I dont think that they eat other babies.

[Horace]

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[Mik]

That’s funny.

[taiwan_girl]

Male bees die after mating with females

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