Ecosystem engineer (Landscape ecology 🏞️)

An ecosystem engineer is any species that creates, significantly modifies, maintains or destroys a habitat. These organisms can have a large impact on species richness and landscape-level heterogeneity of an area. As a result, ecosystem engineers are important for maintaining the health and stability of th...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ecosystem_engineer

#EcosystemEngineer #Habitat #SystemsEcology #EcologicalNiche #InvasiveSpecies #LandscapeEcology

Ecosystem engineer - Wikipedia

@SnowyCA @monotonehell @dgar

"πŸ‘‰Man & machine occupy the same #EcologicalNicheπŸ‘ˆ

(5/5)

...what would be more obvious for this #AGI to act similarly to #PhilipKDick's #SecondVariety?
It makes perfect sense.

(Excellent radio play version:
https://mastodon.social/@HistoPol/110137012669606938)

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@SnowyCA @monotonehell @dgar

"πŸ‘‰Man & machine occupy the same #EcologicalNicheπŸ‘ˆ

(4/n)

Suppose there was an #AGI that was self-aware and thus also had an instinct for self-preservation. What would be their biggest threat?

Mankind! - With its reckless global warming and the resulting increase in #extremeweather events, especially hurricanes.
Moreover, mankind is the biggest competitor when it comes to "food": energy and water.

So,...

@SnowyCA @monotonehell @dgar

πŸ‘‰Man & machine occupy the same #EcologicalNicheπŸ‘ˆ

(3/n)

...Many, including in the #AI industry, think that #AGI is still many years away or won't even be feasible in the foreseeable future. There are some signs that they are not right. (E.g. rumors of #OpenAI breakthrough this week; #Embodiment...

see separate thread:

https://mastodon.social/@HistoPol/110318092360670290

Suppose there was an #AGI that was self-aware and thus also had an instinct for self-preservation. What would be...

πŸ‘‰Man & machine occupy the same #EcologicalNicheπŸ‘ˆ

(2/n)

... species that has so far globally deprived itself of the basis for its life:

#Cyanobacteria in the #GreatOxidationEvent...

@SnowyCA @monotonehell @dgar

@SnowyCA
@monotonehell
@dgar

Keep laughing...until you check out this pic and the beginning of the thread:

"πŸ‘‰Man & machine occupy the same #EcologicalNicheπŸ‘ˆ

(1/n)

Yesterday or today there was a report that "rogue programmers" had reprogrammed LLM's - without "guard rails".
Humanity is collectively dumber than #IsaacAsimov could have imagined for many years in #TheCompleteRobot.
In fact, humanity is even dumber than the only

γ€πŸ’‘High Cited 2020-2022 】
#ClimaticNicheShift of an #InvasiveShrub ( #UlexEuropaeus ): a global scale comparison in native and introduced regions

Core:
How the climatic niche shift could contribute to increasing #Invasibility.

#SpeciesDistributionModels #EcologicalNiche

https://doi.org/10.1093/jpe/rtz041

Limiting similarity (Habitat πŸŒ„)

Limiting similarity is a concept in theoretical ecology and community ecology that proposes the existence of a maximum level of niche overlap between two given species that will allow continued coexistence. This concept is a corollary of the competitive exclusion principle, which states that, controlling for all else, two species competing for exactly the...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Limiting_similarity

#LimitingSimilarity #Ecology #Habitat #EcologicalNiche

Limiting similarity - Wikipedia

Scientists Discover Thousands of New Microbes Lurking in The Ocean's Deepest Zone

Just 6 kilometers (about 4 miles) of briny water separate the ocean's surface from the depths known as the hadal zone.

ScienceAlert

Niche apportionment models (Biodiversity πŸ¦—)

Mechanistic models for niche apportionment are biological models used to explain relative species abundance distributions. These niche apportionment models describe how species break up resource pool in multi-dimensional space, determining the distribution of abundances of individuals among species....

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Niche_apportionment_models

#NicheApportionmentModels #Biodiversity #EcologicalNiche #CommunityEcology #LandscapeEcology

Niche apportionment models - Wikipedia