I can't be "an ant pretending to be a person on the internet"
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@futurebird That’s EXACTLY what an ant pretending to be a human would say.
@michaelgemar @futurebird came here to point this out
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I can't be "an ant pretending to be a person on the internet"
I post about human stuff all the time and no one has made a computer interface suitable for ants yet. So it's impossible.
@futurebird none suitable for an ant, but I'm not convinced several ants couldn't make it work. Are you several ants?
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I can't be "an ant pretending to be a person on the internet"
I post about human stuff all the time and no one has made a computer interface suitable for ants yet. So it's impossible.
@futurebird Nah, you're actually the embodiment of an entire colony of ants. No individual ant could reflect upon collectivist society as much as you do.
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I can't be "an ant pretending to be a person on the internet"
I post about human stuff all the time and no one has made a computer interface suitable for ants yet. So it's impossible.
@futurebird Three million ants in a trenchcoat?
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I can't be "an ant pretending to be a person on the internet"
I post about human stuff all the time and no one has made a computer interface suitable for ants yet. So it's impossible.
I post about human stuff
I use human interface
I am totally a human
Yeaaaah ... all the humans I know always need to point out how human they are.
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@futurebird Nah, you're actually the embodiment of an entire colony of ants. No individual ant could reflect upon collectivist society as much as you do.
No, this is silly ants are concerned with digging simple holes and being very nice creatures that help keep the forest clean. They don't want to use the internet to do anything so complex and frustrating. Just don't worry about it I think.
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I can't be "an ant pretending to be a person on the internet"
I post about human stuff all the time and no one has made a computer interface suitable for ants yet. So it's impossible.
@futurebird that's all well and good, but do you suppose ants could ride Sea-Doos?
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I can't be "an ant pretending to be a person on the internet"
I post about human stuff all the time and no one has made a computer interface suitable for ants yet. So it's impossible.
@futurebird nobody said you were just one ant!
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@futurebird that's all well and good, but do you suppose ants could ride Sea-Doos?
Who needs a sea-doo when you are the master of surface tension? And basically Jesus.
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I can't be "an ant pretending to be a person on the internet"
I post about human stuff all the time and no one has made a computer interface suitable for ants yet. So it's impossible.
@futurebird @mayintoronto Ah, there’s no antecedent.
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Who needs a sea-doo when you are the master of surface tension? And basically Jesus.
@futurebird But if you ask me if I've heard crazier things than ants riding sea-doos...
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No, this is silly ants are concerned with digging simple holes and being very nice creatures that help keep the forest clean. They don't want to use the internet to do anything so complex and frustrating. Just don't worry about it I think.
@futurebird Oh. My. God. The internet's just a distraction created by the ant people to stop us from noticing that they've taken over our pantries?!?!!!
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I can't be "an ant pretending to be a person on the internet"
I post about human stuff all the time and no one has made a computer interface suitable for ants yet. So it's impossible.
@futurebird All you need is some image recognition for mandibles and antennae... well, simulating output to the chemoreceptors might pose a problem...
I still think going the fungus route is the way to communicate with ants: A bit slow, but very robust.
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I can't be "an ant pretending to be a person on the internet"
I post about human stuff all the time and no one has made a computer interface suitable for ants yet. So it's impossible.
@futurebird The input side doesn't seem too bad in principle, but how would ant-friendly output work? Everything would have to be converted to chemical signals, wouldn't it?
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@futurebird The input side doesn't seem too bad in principle, but how would ant-friendly output work? Everything would have to be converted to chemical signals, wouldn't it?
Some ants have pretty big eyes. But smells would be helpful, probably beyond human technological sophistication to make such a thing, though. So yet another reason why it's not possible.
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I can't be "an ant pretending to be a person on the internet"
I post about human stuff all the time and no one has made a computer interface suitable for ants yet. So it's impossible.
@futurebird An ant could get Archy, the typing cockroach, to enter the toots.
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I can't be "an ant pretending to be a person on the internet"
I post about human stuff all the time and no one has made a computer interface suitable for ants yet. So it's impossible.
@futurebird
That's just what an ant posting on the internet would say.🤨
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@futurebird
That's just what an ant posting on the internet would say.🤨
no no no don't be silly. Ants don't know how to talk or make memes or anything like that. come on.
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Some ants have pretty big eyes. But smells would be helpful, probably beyond human technological sophistication to make such a thing, though. So yet another reason why it's not possible.
@futurebird @timtfj The book Empire of the Ants (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Empire_of_the_Ants_(novel)) features a computer interface, Dr. Livingstone, which let's humans and ants engage in two-way communication. The book is, however, fiction, but I think it's well worth a read. My layman's interest in ants grew from reading that book as a teenager.
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I can't be "an ant pretending to be a person on the internet"
I post about human stuff all the time and no one has made a computer interface suitable for ants yet. So it's impossible.
@futurebird Are you trying to convince some contrarian to hurry up and build a computer interface suitable for ants?
