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> The significance of witnesses to humans under various contexts could be explained by the importance of reputation management to our species.

It could also be explained as the researches accidentally recreating "Clever Hans."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clever_Hans

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'After 1916, there is no record of him and his fate is unknown, but he was drafted into World War I as a military horse and "killed in action in 1916 or was consumed by hungry soldiers"'

I feel like regardless of confirmation behind how high the intellect of the horse was, this is no way him to go out. Hans truly loved him. This may sound dramatic but it feels like if my pet cat were to get killed in war and possibly eaten after i died

Got me curious about consumption of cat meat. https://www.wrdw.com/content/news/President-Trump-Signs-the-... Federal act signed in 2018 banning consumption of dog and cat meat. Was previously legal in 44 states.

Wouldn't it still be legal in 44 states?

There's a federal ban on marijuana but it's legal in many states.

Those states won’t themselves prosecute you for consuming cat (or cannabis), but that doesn’t mean the act of consumption is legal.

Is there a reason? Like disease or something? Weird.

If the test was what the images in the paper suggest then chimps are way better at it than humans. So there's no way to borrow intelligence from the audience.

https://youtu.be/zsXP8qeFF6A?si=GX0ldoWywMaCzEom

> After a formal investigation in 1907, psychologist Oskar Pfungst demonstrated that the horse was not actually performing these mental tasks, but was watching the reactions of his trainer.

Sounds like machine learning

Sounds like a failure mode in machine learning.

Erudition signalling may be in full circle.

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