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Re:Octopuses, crabs and lobsters to be recognised as sentien... by BeeBoBub on Sunday November 21, 2021 @08:45PM (#29301811)
That’s not really the argument monkeybutton is making, the point is lobsters’ neural complexity is similar to ants, and orcas are comparable to humans.
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Re:Octopuses, crabs and lobsters to be recognised as sentien... by otabdeveloper4 on Monday November 22, 2021 @01:44AM (#29303552)
Ants are intelligent enough to form civilization. (I think the only other species than humans.)

Granted, ant intelligence is a hive mind.

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Re:Octopuses, crabs and lobsters to be recognised as sentien... by lanevorockz on Sunday November 21, 2021 @11:17PM (#29302662)
It’s still a gradation, “as complex” is obviously a stretch. The whole argument is silly, soon turning off my Deep Learning algorithms because they are more complex than lobster.
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Re:Octopuses, crabs and lobsters to be recognised as sentien... by jojobas on Sunday November 21, 2021 @11:31PM (#29302753)
500 years ago the argument that black people should have rights was just as silly.

We'll live to see some sort of AI rights protection laws.

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Re:Octopuses, crabs and lobsters to be recognised as sentien... by Chris2048 on Monday November 22, 2021 @07:10AM (#29305514)
No it wasn't, the argument was as silly as it is now, for a non-subjective definition of "silly".

500 years ago science was less mature, and unable to determine what was objectively silly, and what wasn't.

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