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>may even have been more intelligent? One might argue that painting ochre on cave walls is more intelligent (and culturally superior ) than painting radioactiv
by 8bitsrule 3y ago
>may even have been more intelligent?
One might argue that painting ochre on cave walls is more intelligent (and culturally superior ) than painting radioactivity all over the sky, painting man-made carcinogens all over the ground, painting our insides with plastic, depleting - as rapidly as possible - resources future humans will need ... and all the 'clever' magic tricks we can beat our chests about.
'Modern' may turn out, one day, to be a darkly humorous pejorative.
- MichaelBurge 3y agoThey might've been even worse. Someone on Neanderthal Hacker News would be writing the same comment praising us for being a much smarter species, because we died out instead of inventing nuclear weapons, leaded gasoline, and microplastics like modern Neanderthals did. For all you know, every humanoid species that was intelligent was equally as destructive. Maybe we're the least destructive and you should be praising us.