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Are We Smart Enough to Know How Smart Animals Are?
Science
Primatologist Frans de Waal surveys decades of research on animal cognition, arguing that humans have systematically underestimated other species and that human-style reasoning is one branch, not the pinnacle, of cognitive evolution.
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Yann LeCun
“It's great! De Waal's point is that if you think that human-style language and symbol manipulation are special traits of human intelligence, you are a neo-creationist.”
LeCun recommended it on Twitter in 2019, tying it to debates about the nature of intelligence.