A dung beetle and an ant score alike on benchmarks, yet differ vastly in potential
sebkrier · x · 2026-09-10
Brendan McCord's analogy: a dung beetle and an ant are roughly the same complexity, and benchmarked on moving a crumb 12 inches they'd perform about the same — but one has vastly greater possibilities for collective intelligence. A critique of what benchmarks fail to measure.
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