zslastman comments on The Octopus, the Dolphin and Us: a Great Filter tale - Less Wrong

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Comment author: zslastman 11 September 2014 05:42:58AM 2 points [-]

That's a good point. I guess not. My intuition is that a lot of organisms have evolved simple multicellularity, and so would probably be doing better as unified multicellular organisms, but it's possible, as you say, that they haven't gotten to that point for lack of the niche. I don't know enough about the topic to say.