...they’re ants. That’s just not how ants work. For a myriad of reasons. The whole point of the post is that there isn’t necessarily local deliberative intent, just strategies filling ecological niches.
They’re not ants, they’re hybrid ant-human metaphors. Ants don’t talk and don’t wonder if the grasshopper is right. Ants don’t consider counterfactual cases of never having met the other colony. Metaphorical ants that _CAN_ do these things can also consider other strategies than war.
...they’re ants. That’s just not how ants work. For a myriad of reasons. The whole point of the post is that there isn’t necessarily local deliberative intent, just strategies filling ecological niches.
They’re not ants, they’re hybrid ant-human metaphors. Ants don’t talk and don’t wonder if the grasshopper is right. Ants don’t consider counterfactual cases of never having met the other colony. Metaphorical ants that _CAN_ do these things can also consider other strategies than war.