In the 1970s, David Premack wondered if a chimpanzee could be taught to ask a question. He taught Sarah 130 plastic word-tokens. She answered his questions easily. After years of work, she had never asked one of her own. Sixty years later, no signing ape has.
A four-year-old human asks about 25 questions an hour. Paul Harris at Harvard counted them: kids ask their parents around 40,000 questions between ages two and five.
Premack even worked out a method for teaching an ape to ask. Hide a snack the chimp expects. Wait for her to sign "where is it." He never bothered running it on Sarah. She spent her sessions answering his questions, never asking her own. A normal kid, he pointed out, asks "what that? who making noise? when Daddy come home?" on a loop.
Washoe the chimpanzee, the first one taught American Sign Language, knew 250 signs. She could request food. She could sign her name. She once saw a swan and called it "water bird," a sharp invention for an animal she had no sign for. She never asked what the swan was, or where it came from, or anything else.
Koko the gorilla knew about 1,000 signs. Kanzi the bonobo understands more than 3,000 spoken English words. Nim Chimpsky, Herbert Terrace's chimp at Columbia (named to mock the linguist Noam Chomsky), strung 125 signs into more than 20,000 combinations. His longest stretch was "give orange me give eat orange me eat orange give me eat orange give me you."
He never asked a thing.
Joseph Jordania, a researcher in Melbourne, thinks this is the line between us and them.
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A four-year-old human asks about 25 questions an hour. Paul Harris at Harvard counted them: kids ask their parents around 40,000 questions between ages two and five.
Premack even worked out a method for teaching an ape to ask. Hide a snack the chimp expects. Wait for her to sign "where is it." He never bothered running it on Sarah. She spent her sessions answering his questions, never asking her own. A normal kid, he pointed out, asks "what that? who making noise? when Daddy come home?" on a loop.
Washoe the chimpanzee, the first one taught American Sign Language, knew 250 signs. She could request food. She could sign her name. She once saw a swan and called it "water bird," a sharp invention for an animal she had no sign for. She never asked what the swan was, or where it came from, or anything else.
Koko the gorilla knew about 1,000 signs. Kanzi the bonobo understands more than 3,000 spoken English words. Nim Chimpsky, Herbert Terrace's chimp at Columbia (named to mock the linguist Noam Chomsky), strung 125 signs into more than 20,000 combinations. His longest stretch was "give orange me give eat orange me eat orange give me eat orange give me you."
He never asked a thing.
Joseph Jordania, a researcher in Melbourne, thinks this is the line between us and them.
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CHUD THE BUILDER HEROICALLY DEFENDS HIMSELF IN BRUTAL ATTACK!
Brave streamer Chud approached a hostile group, got sucker-punched and beaten, then drew his gun and dropped the aggressor with a stomach shot. Despite being grazed on the arm, he stood his ground against the violent chimp-out. Real self-defense — Chud protected his life when they tried to take it!
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Brave streamer Chud approached a hostile group, got sucker-punched and beaten, then drew his gun and dropped the aggressor with a stomach shot. Despite being grazed on the arm, he stood his ground against the violent chimp-out. Real self-defense — Chud protected his life when they tried to take it!
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New Stanford University data indicates that reading scores have fallen sharply across nearly the entire United States over the past decade.
Researchers have linked the decline in part to the rise of EdTech-driven curricula and the lingering effects of pandemic-era education policies.
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Researchers have linked the decline in part to the rise of EdTech-driven curricula and the lingering effects of pandemic-era education policies.
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Trump admin has effectively eliminated offering government mortgages to immigrants.
Some H-1B workers under Biden were being given nearly “free” houses with the government covering up to 97-100% of the financing through FHA loans, no money down.
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Some H-1B workers under Biden were being given nearly “free” houses with the government covering up to 97-100% of the financing through FHA loans, no money down.
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A couple from Harnett County, N.C. was arrested last week for child s—x crimes. The two men have custody of five boys, though prosecutors have not stated if the victims were those children.
Joshua Lee Gilliam, 39, is charged with first-degree s—xual exploitation of a minor, first-degree statutory s—xual offense and indecent liberties.
Ronald Wayne Lynch, 39, is charged with two counts of first-degree s—xual exploitation of a minor, and second-degree s—xual exploitation of a minor.
I wonder what they meant by this post on their Instagram?
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Joshua Lee Gilliam, 39, is charged with first-degree s—xual exploitation of a minor, first-degree statutory s—xual offense and indecent liberties.
Ronald Wayne Lynch, 39, is charged with two counts of first-degree s—xual exploitation of a minor, and second-degree s—xual exploitation of a minor.
I wonder what they meant by this post on their Instagram?
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A man recovered 5 Bitcoin worth $400,000 from a wallet locked for 11 years using Claude AI.
After years of failed attempts, he gave the Claude access to his old computer files and it reportedly figured out the forgotten password and unlocked the wallet.
The password was "lol420f*ckthePOLICE!*:)"
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A man recovered 5 Bitcoin worth $400,000 from a wallet locked for 11 years using Claude AI.
After years of failed attempts, he gave the Claude access to his old computer files and it reportedly figured out the forgotten password and unlocked the wallet.
The password was "lol420f*ckthePOLICE!*:)"
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In light of the hot new beta blocker trend, I want to remind people:
They reliably impair memory consolidation!
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They reliably impair memory consolidation!
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Media is too big
VIEW IN TELEGRAM
Here’s a bunch of grown people parked under an overpass in the middle of a Texas storm because they’re too scared to drive in the rain
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