[Rockhounds] Civilization

[Drew]

On Mon, Oct 3, 2022 at 3:55 PM J Bryan Kramer <codeburner at gmail.com> wrote:

> Well sure dogs can learn some words in context, I think I've heard about
> 600 words or so on genius level dogs. But if your kid had a 600 word
> vocabulary at age 10 or so, people would not call her a genius. Dogs also
> lake situational memory, their sense of geometry is limited and they lack
> multitudes of other essential human abilities.
>
> Just pointing out that some critter has some limited mental ability does
> not make them another Feynman. Fine a critter that can do tensor calculus,
> build a steel girder bridge and compose Sonnets then let me know.
>

Humans are working to end their own species at an alarming rate because
they lack the intelligence to live sustainably in their environment. Not
sure how any serious person could look at other organisms like ants, who
have been sustainably farming for over 50 million years and compare them to
the paltry 2 million years that humans have had? The arrogance is laughable.

WGAF about tensor calculus when our species makes their home unlivable in a
very short 200 years?