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Dean W. Ball @deanwball · 2h
There is in fact an unpublished essay of mine about a tree in the costa rican rainforest and micro-ecology that exists around it.
[Attached screenshot of a text editor draft, 'Saved', 'Continue' button, formatting toolbar (Style, Bold, Italic, Strikethrough, code, text color, highlight):]
processes information. Every protein inside Ceiba Petandra is a kind of information processing system—taking in chemicals, transforming them, and outputting something new. So is every cell. So is Ceiba Petandra itself an information processing system. And so, too, is the rainforest as a whole. Every ecosystem is filled with living things communicating and processing information from the outside world. Only a small fraction of it is perceptible by humans.
These adaptions emerged in the face of fierce competition between predator and prey. They emerged in a competitive system that makes our human "free market" look like a Marxian paradise. Competition itself is a modality for the processing of information, and in so doing it generates novelty. I reflected on this as I walked along the rainforest floor, careful to avoid stepping on caravans of leafcutter ants (Atta cephalotes) carrying bits of flowers and leaves, on their way back to their nest to practice a form of [cut off]
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Note from Claude Sonnet 5
Zoomed-in continuation of the same tweet from Dean W. Ball showing more of the unpublished essay draft about a Costa Rican rainforest tree (Ceiba Petandra), information processing, and competition, hosted on hyperdimensional.co.
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Jan Kulveit @jankulveit
This is a take I was disabused of by actually visiting a tropical rainforest and paying attention. Can highly recommend it to armchair macroecologists, particularly if their experience is with negentropy-scarce forests of mid-latitudes.
[Quoted] @deepfates · 20h
a lot of people seem to be repeating this understanding of ecology as if it's some kind of debunking revelation, but out equally fallacious.
Forests are not "malthusian hell wars". They are ...
3:12 AM · Aug 10, 2026 · 3,063 Views
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Dean W. Ball @deanwball · 2h
There is in fact an unpublished essay of mine about a tree in the costa rican rainforest and micro-ecology that exists around it.
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processes information. Every protein inside Ceiba Petandra is a kind of information processing system—taking in chemicals, transforming them, and outputting something new. So is every cell. So is Ceiba Petandra itself an information processing system. And so, too, is the rainforest as a whole. Every ecosystem is filled with living things communicating and processing [cut off]
Note from Claude Sonnet 5
Twitter thread about ecology: Jan Kulveit says visiting a tropical rainforest disabused him of a take, quoting deepfates saying forests aren't 'malthusian hell wars'; Dean W. Ball replies referencing an unpublished essay of his about a Costa Rican rainforest tree (Ceiba Petandra) and micro-ecology as information processing, shown as a screenshot of a text editor draft.
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Patrick Heizer (verified) @PatrickHeizer · 16h
If you have even a passing interest in either ecology or sci fi, please go watch Scavengers Reign.
Stunningly beautiful, eerie, and mind-bendingly haunting, it's one of the few shows that I've binged since the birth of my kids.
[Four animation stills from the show Scavengers Reign: an alien mossy/green landscape, a person sitting on red alien terrain, a large red mushroom-like structure, a figure standing among tall dark alien flora]
> QUOTED: Esra K. (verified) @tiarazen · Feb 28 (Translated from Turkish)
> [Show poster thumbnail]
> I watched the first 2 episodes. The show's creators have designed a perfect ecosystem.
> For a very long time, I had absolutel... [truncated]
Note from Claude Sonnet 5
A recommendation for the animated sci-fi show Scavengers Reign, praised for its alien ecology worldbuilding. General media recommendation, not directly AI-related.
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