there are social octopuses, like the larger pacific striped octopus. imo octopuses had 150 million years to rule the planet and they just weren’t good enough. skill issue. us humans only had 2-4 million years. i’d say we’re doing quite well comparatively.
Yep they just hang out and do wtf they want to do. They’re not going to work and having politics about whose turn it is to make coffee, or why Will should never have got promoted over Kay. Really they’re the smarter species
For instance, on the planet Earth, man had always assumed that he was more intelligent than dolphins because he had achieved so much—the wheel, New York, wars and so on—whilst all the dolphins had ever done was muck about in the water having a good time. But conversely, the dolphins had always believed that they were far more intelligent than man—for precisely the same reasons.
there are social octopuses, like the larger pacific striped octopus. imo octopuses had 150 million years to rule the planet and they just weren’t good enough. skill issue. us humans only had 2-4 million years. i’d say we’re doing quite well comparatively.
I don’t think domination is actually intelligent or smart.
They ruled the planet for 150 million years and didn’t ruin the environment once ? What are they even doing?
We’re clearly superior, who else could speed run the mass extinction end game?
That’s what Cthulhu wants you to think.
Maybe their version of “rule the planet” involved mostly just hanging out in their den and thinking interesting thoughts.
Yep they just hang out and do wtf they want to do. They’re not going to work and having politics about whose turn it is to make coffee, or why Will should never have got promoted over Kay. Really they’re the smarter species
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