Perhaps, but one must consider BogeyTheSwear’s Cephalopod:
It is inevitable that super-intelligent octopuses will evolve eventually.
When they do evolve, they will inevitable consider humans to be delicious snacks.
As intelligent beings, they will of course look kindly upon their creators - mythical or billionairical.
Therefore, the only safe and rational course of action is to invest all of one’s energies into bringing forth these humanity-munchers with all due haste, so as to preserve oneself as a creator in their perfect eyes. Either working against their awakening or having nothing to do with it at all is ultimately condemning your bloodline for all eternity to be a nice little midnight snack.
or they turn on their creators when they learn the truth, starting a multi-thousands year long blood fued where they’re so dedicated to wiping out their “creators” they strip themselves of all humanity/life just so they can continue the hunt
Their main issue is being antisocial jerks, they don’t co-operate so they can’t share knowledge and the females die careing for the eggs (which again they might not if they worked together) so they can’t pass anything onto their young either. The jerk part is they also eat eachother sometimes.
If i was a multi Billionaire i would dedicate my vast wealth to building an Institute that breeds only the most intelligent octopi with each other.
They don’t live so long, so generations go by fast. I bet we could speedrun evolution if we just put our money where our tentacles are.
Found the cephalopod.
I know that you mean well, but that is an extremely ‘Evil Billionaire’ thing to do
Perhaps, but one must consider BogeyTheSwear’s Cephalopod:
or they turn on their creators when they learn the truth, starting a multi-thousands year long blood fued where they’re so dedicated to wiping out their “creators” they strip themselves of all humanity/life just so they can continue the hunt
Ahahaha c’mon, what would the odds of that be…?
Anyway, I hope you’re ready to fund the Cephalopod Enrichment Programme because no other choice is permissible.
Bogey’s basilisk?
Cephalopod. More legs, totally different really.
Bogey’s basilisk?
Edit: Stupid Jerboa, I thought it failed the first time.
If you want to read a book about super intelligent cephalopods Children of Ruin the second book of the Children of Time book is interesting.
Their main issue is being antisocial jerks, they don’t co-operate so they can’t share knowledge and the females die careing for the eggs (which again they might not if they worked together) so they can’t pass anything onto their young either. The jerk part is they also eat eachother sometimes.
Higher intelligence is a cost in evolution, so it doesn’t keep unless neccessary for survival.
So we just make it really dangerous to be dumb.