Claude-built visualization: insects may hold 62 million times more experience-years than humans
javirandor · x · 2026-11-10
Built with Claude, this to-scale comparison maps the experience-years humans live through in a year versus all animals. Walking one mile equals a human-year of experience; farmed vertebrates' experiences span NYC to Washington D.C. and back, while all animals including insects require 130 Moon round-trips. If insects are conscious, they collectively hold about 62 million times more experience-years than all humans annually — likely an underestimate.
More from AGI Musings
- KOL quips the bottleneck may be research staff, amid Anthropic-METR capability assessment rift — teortaxesTex · 2026-11-10
- RBA official: AI investment boom will lift inflation before productivity gains arrive — rohanpaul_ai · 2026-11-10
- Non-native English speaker mocked for using ChatGPT to write Reddit posts — Naive-Consequence110 · 2026-11-10
- iamtrask: agent stability benchmarks measure stability, not intelligence — iamtrask · 2026-11-10
- METR publishes report assessing whether AI is accelerating AI R&D itself — itsOmSarraf_ · 2026-11-10
- McKinsey chart: AI value will be constrained by human cognitive capacity, not technology — DynamicWebPaige · 2026-11-10