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Intelligence is one of the strongest predictors for success even among humans.

• guerrilla 6y ago
  You're begging the question. You've defined what humans do as success. It's not even clear that what we do isn't complete failure (see climate change, nuclear war, etc.) Let's see if our actions keep us alive for some 160 million years.
  • read_if_gay_ 6y ago
    So let’s say human behavior is failure, and animals are at least reasonably smart. We’re implying the reason why animals don’t engage in human-like behavior is that they recognize it will lead to things like climate change and nuclear war. Why are they not stopping us from destroying them along with ourselves?
    • guerrilla 6y ago
      No, that's not the claim, only that our "success" is not a good measure of intelligence.
      • read_if_gay_ 6y ago
        If the question is whether animals can be deemed intelligent in the same way we humans are, and you define intelligence to be something other than what made humans successful, then the question becomes kind of moot, doesn't it?