I read the article and found what was linked didn't substantiate the headline. When i looked into her research it's hard to really describe what these bees are doing as "math" in except the most generous of definitions.
No that's NOT why it wouldn't work for humans. We aren't fucking livestock or pets. We have to produce offspring who must COMPETE to carry on our genetic legacy. Cows, chickens and poodles no longer have to compete; they just have to be DELICIOUS or adorable. That's because the selective pressures that govern their existence are no longer natural...they live or die depending on artificial human needs.
Her research isnt about teaching bees math though. Its about measuring their numerical cognition. The title of that article is whatever, the subtitle refers to the bees doing basic arithmetic. The second paragraph links to two of her studiesI read the article and found what was linked didn't substantiate the headline. When i looked into her research it's hard to really describe what these bees are doing as "math" in except the most generous of definitions.
I'm no bee expert, but bees are magnificent creatures that will trek across vast and complex distances to pick out a patch of clover that their granddaddy told them about one time.
Picking the big triangle sometimes and the small one other times is just an adaptation of that, not the mastery of a building block of abstract thought.
Scarlet howard is a hot woman in stem tho, so im sure she'll get infinite funding to fuck around with bees for another decade or two.
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I don't know what is more intelligent, trying to find pictures of her with makeup or a swimsuit, or reading a paper i probably dont have the education to comprehend so i can argue whether these bees are adding numbers or just performing basic pattern recognition that isn't actually numerical cognition.Her research isnt about teaching bees math though. Its about measuring their numerical cognition. The title of that article is whatever, the subtitle refers to the bees doing basic arithmetic. The second paragraph links to two of her studies
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neither of which is about doing math. One is about the bees ability to recognize zero as less than any other value and the other the ability to determine when adding or subtracting 1 leads to a preferable outcome. Both suggest that bees posses numerical cognition on the level of parrots, non human primates and small human children, a fact which makes bees an excellent model organism for numerical cognition.
However, as excellent as bees are, even they would not refer to Ms Howard as hot. She is a 6.
I applaud your choice of intelligent tasks.
This is an eight on the normal scale and a solid ten on the chicks in bee suits scale.
With what?
And the thing is, so do humans. The only difference is that there's no breeder - the state - coming around to specify criteria of selection.
Against who would they compete? Other humans, presumably? The thing is, competition between humans is no longer competition between humans, it's competition between societies and technologies. The "natural" fitness of the humans inside is relatively meaningless.
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in the Coronavirus thread that can't even math up severity over a month, and you're over here talking about poodles when there's:
Wrong. It will be the State that produced those guys vs the State that produced those guys.
Doesn’t this undermine your argument though? We don’t have eugenics programs and we still have little twink millennials. They were created by the same pressures that gave us Brock Lesnar. Do you not think breeding the Brock Lesnars of the world with the Cyborg Santoses of the world would result in fewer twink millennial types?
