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My wife is a Montessori teacher. I showed this to her; she said that the attribute game described is used at the 2.5 year old level in her school. So yes, I’d
by sgarland 2y ago
My wife is a Montessori teacher. I showed this to her; she said that the attribute game described is used at the 2.5 year old level in her school.
So yes, I’d say people woefully underestimate the abilities of children.
- MBCook 2y agoAnd birds. And fish. And… We seem to have a very very strong bias towards assuming less/no intelligence in anything that isn’t an adult human.
- damnitbuilds 2y agoI disagree. People often anthropomorphise animals and ascribe intelligence to actions that are clearly only instinctive. And people ascribe intelligence to Eliza, a 200-line Basic program.
- aithrowawaycomm 2y agoI am unable to think of a single animal behavior popularly ascribed to intelligence but in fact explainable by rote instinct. Do you have an example? OTOH there are plenty of animal behaviors that can only be explained by intelligence: seeing-eye dogs perform a task which is economically useful for humans yet far beyond the ability of AI (even if the robotics mech eng issues are resolved). But it also doesn't really make sense that one of my cats is "instinctually" able to understanding my words while the other cat is "instinctually" able to outsmart me when we play with toys. The more sensible explanation is cats are intelligent and intellectually diverse.
- damnitbuilds 2y agoSquirrels burying acorns, "wily" foxes, beaver dams, migration, etc. etc. etc.