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0 pointssidlls5y ago0 comments

So? Whales are (relative to humans) quite dumb. Communicating with an intelligent alien species isn't the same--in any way.

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ironmagma5y ago· 2 in thread

That’s going to need a citation, because it’s not what a lot of researchers say.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16270270

[2] https://www.orcanation.org/2019/10/10/the-social-intelligenc...

sidllsOP5y ago

It's a bit of a stretch to go from basic imitation of simple words to intelligence on par with homo sapiens.

ironmagma5y ago

It’s not basic imitation if they can communicate using the language of another species [1] nor is it that big of a stretch when they have larger brains than us.

[1] https://www.zmescience.com/science/biology/killer-whale-dolp...

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