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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.
I know that you mean well, but that is an extremely 'Evil Billionaire' thing to do
Perhaps, but one must consider BogeyTheSwear’s Cephalopod:
Bogey's basilisk?
Cephalopod. More legs, totally different really.
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?
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.
Found the cephalopod.
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.
This would be directed evolution, not natural selection, so we decide what to keep.
So we just make it really dangerous to be dumb.