Hmm. I'm always nervous about that argument in the sciences, where your credibility is absolutely everything. If the scientific community learns to see your organization as "the artistic mega-squid people", serious scientists will start avoiding you to preserve their own reputations.
I guess what bothers me about the kraken theory (even without artistic intelligence) is that it's so clearly pure speculation, based on very scant evidence. It sounds like the idea isn't contradicted by the evidence, but inventing a beast of unprecedented size that routinely hunted (and collected) bus-sized (otherwise-)apex-predators seems a bit extreme. One has to wonder whether there couldn't be some sort of natural ocean current that could accomplish the same thing. (Goodness knows there are enough phenomena that we don't understand today even when we can see them ourselves: rogue waves, for example.)
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I guess what bothers me about the kraken theory (even without artistic intelligence) is that it's so clearly pure speculation, based on very scant evidence. It sounds like the idea isn't contradicted by the evidence, but inventing a beast of unprecedented size that routinely hunted (and collected) bus-sized (otherwise-)apex-predators seems a bit extreme. One has to wonder whether there couldn't be some sort of natural ocean current that could accomplish the same thing. (Goodness knows there are enough phenomena that we don't understand today even when we can see them ourselves: rogue waves, for example.)