John Gowdy: “Superorganisms, Crazy Ants, and Fire Apes, Oh My!"
The Great Simplification with Nate Hagens
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The Ant Colonies Are Starting to Fragment and Break Down
The break down of that individuality for co operation makes sense when resources are abundant and so on. Iid certainy like the altruism group thing. It pays to be altruistic if you're, if you're get resources you can grow and be better off. A really interesting thing, i've just sort of stumbled on this the last few months. These a super colonies are starting to fragment and break down. The population crashed by about 99%. Resources became scarce. It didn't pay operate. And this is a point i'm trin make in a paper, a same thing is now happening with globalization. Global trade is actually starting to decline. Even before covid now it's h
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