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slopinthebag • today at 2:46 AM • 6 replies • view on HN

imagine we find out later that shifts in our socialisation isn't due to smartphones but some unknown factor that also affects intelligent animals...


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conductr • today at 6:00 AM

I think we just come to grips with humans being an awful, parasitic, and destructive species, even towards ourselves

blobbers • today at 3:04 AM

Or imagine we find out later that shifts in our radio waves are also affecting intelligent animals!

(like bees?)

yieldcrv • today at 3:17 AM

hmmm check the mycelium

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mso3i • today at 3:33 AM

Well there are more microbes around us than there are stars in the universe. They survive without smart phones, intelligence, religion, society and stories that need to fit in a 3 inch chimp brain about the meaning of it all. One of them recently killed 6 million people. Life goes on.

stouset • today at 3:18 AM

The elephants are spending too much time confiding in Claude?

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AnneTrotter • today at 4:25 AM

What a comforting thought, that killing off an intelligent species isn't really our fault.

Bit of an escapist fantasy, though.