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The_Creep_2020
07/24/20 11:52:52 AM
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What would it be?

Just imagine you had a big old 2001 style monolith. What species would you use it on?

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LostForest
07/24/20 11:53:04 AM
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Eliza-Schuyler
07/24/20 11:53:09 AM
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dogs

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IloveJesus
07/24/20 11:53:15 AM
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What species is Trump?

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buddhamonster
07/24/20 11:53:47 AM
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Dogs seem like the no-brainer choice here.

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Guide
07/24/20 11:53:51 AM
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Wouldn't it be kinda cruel to dogs? They'd all understand tech, but have so much trouble using it.

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The_Creep_2020
07/24/20 11:53:51 AM
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IloveJesus posted...
What species is Trump?
Were gonna need a bigger monolith.

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Squall28
07/24/20 11:54:27 AM
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None. Smart animals creep me out.

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R1masher
07/24/20 11:54:49 AM
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Yeah dogs would be great, Id like to hear what they think about cutting their balls off

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Alteres
07/24/20 11:55:26 AM
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Use it on humans, on the off chance it does some good.

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WaterLink
07/24/20 11:55:48 AM
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buddhamonster posted...
Dogs seem like the no-brainer choice here.

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Returning_CEmen
07/24/20 11:59:48 AM
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Great White Sharks
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Were_Wyrm
07/24/20 12:00:31 PM
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Spiders

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WilliamPorygon
07/24/20 12:01:22 PM
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I don't know, cats maybe? All I know is I wouldn't use it to reduce dolphins down to our intelligence level.

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R1masher
07/24/20 12:01:54 PM
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planet of the apes would be cool

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teepan95
07/24/20 12:10:07 PM
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Fungi

They're gonna take over the world anyway, may as well help them do it. Maybe they'll go easy on us
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Prismsblade
07/24/20 12:10:36 PM
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Orcas

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s0nicfan
07/24/20 12:11:35 PM
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teepan95 posted...
Fungi

They're gonna take over the world anyway, may as well help them do it. Maybe they'll go easy on us



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Poop2
07/24/20 12:12:26 PM
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Praying Mantis
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Ser_Jaker
07/24/20 12:12:50 PM
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Sharks

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Son Of Spam
07/24/20 12:18:37 PM
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Id probably do an animal that lives a long time rather than a dog. Imagine the existential crisis it would be for all of them knowing they would only live 10-15 years.

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orangefire25
07/24/20 12:21:25 PM
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Something that couldn't physically overpower us. But the issue with that is they couldn't really use tech unless we developed it for them as they can't really use tools because lack of fingers or appendages. Idk.

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Xenozoa425
07/24/20 12:24:18 PM
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Squall28 posted...
None. Smart animals creep me out.


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Ivynn
07/24/20 12:25:46 PM
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Humans ayyyyy

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Stagmar
07/24/20 12:28:55 PM
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teepan95 posted...
Fungi

They're gonna take over the world anyway, may as well help them do it. Maybe they'll go easy on us
WAAAAAAGH!!!

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ElatedVenusaur
07/24/20 12:39:31 PM
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Dogs would be a good bet for a species that wouldnt be total sociopaths, but they would struggle with manipulating simple tools.
Cats are already completely adorable psychopathic monsters, making them human-smart would end badly. Ditto orcas.

You know what? Crows. They could actually manipulate tools with their beaks and live in cooperative family groups.
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SkittyOnWailord
07/24/20 12:42:29 PM
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Alteres posted...
Use it on humans, on the off chance it does some good.


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Bestoffuture
07/24/20 12:42:55 PM
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Raccoons

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HighOnSolar
07/24/20 12:45:21 PM
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Dog no brainer.

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Bananana
07/24/20 12:50:48 PM
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Can the animals talk now? That seems like more of a physical thing than an intelligence thing

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TheRealDill2000
07/24/20 12:52:01 PM
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Hornets seem like a good option
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07/24/20 12:52:11 PM
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thronedfire2
07/24/20 12:54:21 PM
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Ants

think of all the shit they could build

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MrResetti
07/24/20 12:57:47 PM
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s0nicfan
07/24/20 12:57:55 PM
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Bananana posted...
Can the animals talk now? That seems like more of a physical thing than an intelligence thing

https://youtu.be/pCi-FwKsBDg

Edit: a bit of background. The woman in the video is a speech pathologist that built that array and then trained her dog to use it so that the dog can communicate what it wants and needs.

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Stagmar
07/24/20 12:58:58 PM
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ElatedVenusaur posted...
You know what? Crows. They could actually manipulate tools with their beaks and live in cooperative family groups.
I'd expand that to all corvids. Not sure why it did, but when I found out that Ravens (whose calls are normally nothing like Crows) had been observed making Crow calls to get them to come play it blew my mind.

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AmericaTheBrave
07/24/20 1:00:53 PM
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Why would you want to uplift any animal? An animal with human-like intelligence stops being "just an animal" and starts being a competitor.

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thronedfire2
07/24/20 3:16:08 PM
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s0nicfan posted...
https://youtu.be/pCi-FwKsBDg

Edit: a bit of background. The woman in the video is a speech pathologist that built that array and then trained her dog to use it so that the dog can communicate what it wants and needs.

whoa that's pretty cool

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nemu
07/24/20 3:22:03 PM
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If I had to, probably dolphins. Doing it for anything with a population of millions or hundreds of millions or near a billion like dogs would be fucking catastrophic. Dolphins are like a million or less, and they have the entire ocean to work with.
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ApherosyLove
07/24/20 3:23:28 PM
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Bananas.

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Zikten
07/24/20 3:24:40 PM
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would this uplifting increase their lifespan too? I feel it would be cruel to gift human intelligence to a species that only lives a short time
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s0nicfan
07/24/20 3:26:00 PM
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Zikten posted...
would this uplifting increase their lifespan too? I feel it would be cruel to gift human intelligence to a species that only lives a short time

I've seen a couple of people post this, but I don't think it would be a problem. Granting them a human level intelligence does not automatically give them human specific perspectives on things. We may find that even dogs would feel 15 years living everyday to its best is a life well-lived, and they may in fact be confused how we can tolerate living so long and doing so little in that time.

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ThanksUglyGod
07/24/20 3:27:12 PM
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Elephants. Very chill animals.
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emagdnE
07/24/20 3:31:21 PM
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Implying humans are an intelligent species.
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DarkChozoGhost
07/24/20 3:37:18 PM
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Something with a double digit population, that's about to go extinct. Let them live out the rest of their lives communicating with us

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coinstarcad
07/24/20 3:44:50 PM
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chrono625
07/24/20 3:49:29 PM
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Dogs live 6-11 years on average. Would be cruel to give them human intelligence and they know theyll be dead in an 1/8th of our expected lifetime.

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07/24/20 4:38:57 PM
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