And here you are arguing you know exactly how evolution would proceed on another planet. We’re both arguing pipe dreams, my friend.
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En réponse à @ChrisWarcraft
I am arguing the null hypothesis, that we should not make the ridiculously specific claims about things you don't understand and cannot understand
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En réponse à @a_man_in_black
But you’re arguing in the face of any empirical evidence to the contrary. I’d love for there to be FTL aliens! However, in order for FTL aliens to exist, one has to think about what such a society actually represents, and the fact is that the only proof we have is that organisms
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En réponse à @ChrisWarcraft @a_man_in_black
take the path of least resistance, which means that FTL aliens would have to, at the bare minimum, be present in in such numbers that we could observe evidence of their efforts elsewhere. I might be wrong! I’d love to be wrong, but without compelling evidence, it is what it is.
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En réponse à @ChrisWarcraft
Organisms absolutely do not take the path of least resistance. What?
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En réponse à @a_man_in_black
They absolutely do. If a mutation allows for a 1% increased chance of survival with a .9% increased expenditure of energy, that’s what outbreeds the others (barring drastic events). It’s a greater *local* expenditure of energy, to be sure, but it’s what survives over the long run
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En réponse à @ChrisWarcraft
No, it's what is more likely to outbreed the others. And it assumes that the .01% more efficient mutation happens at all, which isn't a guaranteed thing. Evolution is a process towards efficiency but it isn't a guaranteed process.
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En réponse à @a_man_in_black @ChrisWarcraft
Humans are not the most efficient survivors in many of the environments they now dominate, and yet here we are. Every actual organism on Earth is a counterexample.
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En réponse à @a_man_in_black
We are absolutely the most efficient, because we change the environment to suit our needs instead of waiting millions of years to change to the environment. Wtf?
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En réponse à @ChrisWarcraft
...that's homeostasis, that's not specific to humans
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Oh for sure, for sure, point me to the ravens recalibrating the planet’s temperature, I’ll wait
Le chargement semble prendre du temps.
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