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xipho
When AI is done consuming (and it basically has, except for redundant human-human social network interactions), then will there be a renaissance of re-exploring the natural world? Without understanding its complexities I would posit we're doomed to short and ugly end. Perhaps AI is just what we need to start to re-appreciate it "at scale".
hermitcrab
>When AI is done consuming (and it basically has, except for redundant human-human social network interactions), then will there be a renaissance of re-exploring the natural world?

Whatever nature that is left after the massive energy and water needs of AI are met.

khalic
They’re all muscle inside, fascinating
trhway
specifically head, and it is that big for that reason. I mean it is logical, yet i have never even thought about that until seeing those images. They are basically working and killing machines.
catlikesshrimp
That was my first impression. But then I thought in humans, and concluded ants have less muscle % of volume

Less muscle than us by ANY measure would be mindblowing for beings who can carry up to 100 times their weight, compared to ~ 1-2 we can.

I can't give any appreciation of muscle % of weight. I don't know how heavy is chiting armor/exoskeleton.

socalgal2
Looking forward to a three.js visualization
davidw
"Ok, but what if we could get the biggest possible magnifying glass to use on the ants?"
smeej
I can't be the only one who imagined ants whizzing around the Large Hadron Collider wondering what the heck was happening to them.
chrismcb
Them? I think we've seen this movie
petesergeant
Interestingly, despite the lack of an identifiable brain, these creatures _still_ manage to be more intelligent than my dog
penguin_booze
Under surveillance capitalism, this is the future that awaits humans, too.
nebben64
2 days late to this post so not sure anyone's here, but what fascinates me is finding out how the different segments (or other such insects) are connected. Like, at each of those junctions it seems like a bottle-neck scenario where everything has to be condensed into some "wire" form to then connect to the next segment.