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That’s not really the argument monkeybutton is making, the point is lobsters’ neural complexity is similar to ants, and orcas are comparable to humans.

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Ants are intelligent enough to form civilization. (I think the only other species than humans.)

Granted, ant intelligence is a hive mind.

It’s still a gradation, “as complex” is obviously a stretch. The whole argument is silly, soon turning off my Deep Learning algorithms because they are more complex than lobster.

500 years ago the argument that black people should have rights was just as silly.

We'll live to see some sort of AI rights protection laws.

No it wasn't, the argument was as silly as it is now, for a non-subjective definition of "silly".

500 years ago science was less mature, and unable to determine what was objectively silly, and what wasn't.

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