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Re:Crows possess higher intelligence long thought a primaril... by jychang on Thursday September 24, 2020 @06:58PM (#24584656)
That’s like saying humans aren’t intelligent because they can’t avoid car accidents in the rain.

Even if you were super intelligent, i bet you’d get fucked up in a net if you had low visibility in the water, you were traveling at high speed, and you didn’t have opposable thumbs to untangle yourself.

Re:Crows possess higher intelligence long thought a primaril... by notahacker on Thursday September 24, 2020 @07:28PM (#24584878)
If I was an sonar-equipped aquatic mammal that was also superintelligent, I'd expect generations of losses might have taught my civilization not to swim near boats.

(Unless we're positing that running the risk of being trawled is an essential part of mucking about and having fun, or a scientific experiment, or dolphins having enough imagination for some of them to speculate warnings about boats are a conspiracy to keep them from the best fish :D)

Re:Crows possess higher intelligence long thought a primaril... by pilsetnieks on Thursday September 24, 2020 @07:40PM (#24584966)
Boats go where your food is. Avoid boats and you'll have to avoid the most plentiful food sources. Either starve or run the risk that you might stumble upon a boat and someone from your group might get tangled.
Re:Crows possess higher intelligence long thought a primaril... by jMyles on Thursday September 24, 2020 @08:37PM (#24585300)
> humans aren’t intelligent because they can’t avoid car accidents in the rain

A reasonable exhibit one for the presently observable limits on (at least collective) human intelligence.