r/nextfuckinglevel • u/Natchos09 • 3d ago

Ants making smart maneuver

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u/LennyLloyd 3d ago

There's a novel by Adrian Tchaikovsky in which an intelligent race of large spiders uses ant colonies as computers, eventually breeding them to be microscopic in size and capable of being the hardware for a pre-existing artificial intelligence. Seeing this, this feels even more plausible.

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u/ludlology 3d ago

children of time, such a good book

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u/LennyLloyd 3d ago

Yes, I have no idea why I didn't give the name of the novel in my comment. D'oh.

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u/ludlology 2d ago

haha it happens. have you read the sequel?

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u/LennyLloyd 2d ago

Yeah, it was excellent. Quite creepy.