How many ants live on Earth? (2022)

They are also a speciies capable of Teamwork , Farming , engineering , Forming governing system , Building sky scrapers . No other animals come close to that. What if they would be considered as Non Human Intelligence?

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Post by keepamovin » Mon, Feb 03, 2025, 2:15 PM UTC

v3ss0n wrote: post #4

They are also a speciies capable of Teamwork , Farming , engineering , Forming governing system , Building sky scrapers . No other animals come close to that. What if they would be considered as Non Human Intelligence?

Certainly they are. So when Karl Nell says "a higher form of Non Human Intelligence" is interacting with humanity, I doubt he means ants.

When Tim Gallaudet says "advanced non human intelligence" are interacting with our assets in the oceans - I doubt he means dolphins.

Tho both are undoubtedly NHI.

The actual "tech civilizational level" NHI are often described as insectoid. Interesting to consider that a collectively intelligent ant species could proceed through evolution into a multiplanet technologically super-advanced one.

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Post by amelius » Mon, Feb 03, 2025, 2:18 PM UTC

and how did it change over time?

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Post by jlund-molfese » Mon, Feb 03, 2025, 2:19 PM UTC

de107549 wrote: post #3

Pretty crazy: "That’s 12 megatons of biomass—more than all the wild birds and mammals taken together."

I’ve always found it striking that livestock and humans are 96% of mammalian biomass. That’s a lot of cows! [0]

0. https://ourworldindata.org/wild-mammals-birds-biomass

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Post by cfj » Mon, Feb 03, 2025, 2:42 PM UTC

jlund-molfese wrote: post #8

de107549 wrote: post #3

Pretty crazy: "That’s 12 megatons of biomass—more than all the wild birds and mammals taken together."

I’ve always found it striking that livestock and humans are 96% of mammalian biomass. That’s a lot of cows! [0] 0. https://ourworldindata.org/wild-mammals-birds-biomass

Another fun biomass-related fact: spiders eat more annually than the weight of all human adults [0].

[0] https://newatlas.com/worlds-spiders-insects-tons/48403/

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Post by ronbenton » Mon, Feb 03, 2025, 2:43 PM UTC

Sounds like an old-school Google interview question