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By which metric a tree is very intelligent and a man with a private yacht is not.
by zwkrt 4y ago
By which metric a tree is very intelligent and a man with a private yacht is not.
- YeezyMode 4y agoThis is a possibility that shouldn't be dismissed. Trees use mycorrhizal networks to communicate and have been around for a very long time on this planet. They model the environment and use either a set of micro-decisions or a set of larger, slower moves that are made across longer timescales than humanity is used to. You can argue whether they possess sentience or not, but when discussing models, decisions, and consequences - trees seem to act with plenty of coordination and understanding and self-interest.
- butterNaN 4y agoWealth does not correlate with intelligence.
- nradov 4y agoDoes a tree have goals? Does a wealthy man have unlimited resources? (Time is also a resource.)
- phkahler 4y agoDoes chatGPT have goals? WHY does it produce the output that it does? ;-)
- taneq 4y agoOnly if his goal was not “have his own private yacht.”