Calling it: 30% chance this is a catastrophic mistranslation, 60% this is a hoax, 9.9% chance this is something already well-known. https://www.reuters.com/article/us-france-zoo-blob/paris-zoo-unveils-the-blob-an-organism-with-no-brain-but-720-sexes-idUSKBN1WV2AD …
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Ah, shit. It's just a slime mold. Which means ALL THREE OF MY GUESSES WERE RIGHT.
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It's just this thing: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Physarum_polycephalum … It can find approximate solutions to the traveling salesman problem, but so can a soap film.
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press releases are under insane Darwinian selective pressure - only those that reproduce [ into your mind ] get you to RT them [ into our minds ] etc
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