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causal claim

The speaker says that adding a nervous system to trees would hinder rather than help them achieve their goals.

Adam Becker · Every Exponential Ends — Silicon Valley Forgot — Adam Becker · 20 Aug 2026

In their words

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“And they get there in very different ways and giving them a more complex nervous system or a nervous system at all would not help them with those goals.”
“It would hinder them.”
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