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api on May 30, 2022 | parent | context | favorite | on: The Scaling Hypothesis (2021)

> not clearly more intelligent than crows

There are two possibilities: they're not more intelligent than crows, or they are in a way that is not clear to us.

jeffreyrogers on May 31, 2022 [–]

Well brain size is clearly not the main driver behind intelligence because it's only roughly correlated with intelligence in humans.

api on May 31, 2022 | [–]

There are some extreme cases too:

https://www.rifters.com/crawl/?p=6116

That one is downright spooky, especially for its bizarre implications if you take it seriously.

FeepingCreature on May 31, 2022 | | [–]

Though see gwern's skeptical take.

https://www.gwern.net/Hydrocephalus#problems-with-the-case-s...

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