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Anoscetia t1_j7v7nwn wrote

Why would the farmer care for the individual ant? If your hive happens to be in the tractor's path, you will be crushed regardless of potential value to the crop.

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JoeKingQueen OP t1_j7v8g1g wrote

That is a good thought, except you're not seeing things from the perspective of an entity that can make hundreds of billions of calculations in an instant. Keeping track of individual ants and maximizing each one's usefulness will be relatively simple for such an entity.

Basically, the farmer won't need a tractor. The ants will do the work for them.

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