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Izikiel43yesterday at 9:54 PM3 repliesview on HN

Isn’t this something like how everything ends up evolving into a crab?


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dragontamertoday at 12:11 AM

Nit: Trees/Grass are even more of this than Crabs.

The two strategies for plants are to grow super tall to absorb the sun, or super wide (and small) to.... absorb the sun.

Tall needs wood or other 'strong' polymer to support height. Short and wide is perhaps weak from an individual level but far more efficient.

And trees and grass respectively have such genetic diversity that it's clear that none of these damn plants are of the same genetic line.

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makeitdoubleyesterday at 11:09 PM

There's no point in discussing a meme, but carcinisation doesn't occur in that wide of a range, and of course the reverse phenomenon (decarcinisation) is also observed.

It's a fun image, but just as Facebook isn't becoming Apple, and Amazon won't become OpenAI, evolution phenomenons are more complex than "everything becomes X"

lazideyesterday at 9:58 PM

Carcinisation [https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carcinisation], yeah.

Or ‘why every large public company tends to suck the same ways in the US eventually’

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