Imagine you were reborn as a female queen ant with an expected lifespan of about 15 years (worker ants live about half a queen’s timespan), and had the ambition to make the most of your tiny new life. And you got to keep your current intellectual capacity and knowledge.

How much could you achieve as an ant?

  • j4k3@lemmy.world
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    21 days ago

    Agriculture and seed cultivation as a learned behavior for colonies. Then spend the rest of my time hitching rides and expanding range across continents.

    - I could massively impact Earth’s biome in coming centuries due to the population size of antkind.

    Never mind that my superiority in bio compute efficiency passed down to my offspring will result in human extinction. Don’t have any kids human.