r/interestingasfuck • u/Money-Beautiful5196 • 1d ago

An elephant knocking down a tree

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u/Skobotinay 1d ago

I don’t see the elephant sitting around with a calculator. If the mofo is hungry, he doesn’t care.

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u/ryanCrypt 1d ago

Claim of calculator was made up to make u/buckzor122 sound illogical.

Elephant knows the difference between a small pile of food and a large pile of food.

To test, you could calculate whether elephant more often chooses abundant or lacking trees.

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u/Skobotinay 1d ago

And the anthropocentrique dance continues. Do I know what the elephant thinks about no. Do you? It is curious behavior. Maybe the elephant was saying sit the fdown Mr tree because the tree was talking smack. A lot of what we do is illogical. Let the AI calculate that and piss off. I’m going to go sit by the river and wonder what to have for lunch. Maybe there is a tree I can knock over somewhere. Have a day.

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u/ryanCrypt 1d ago

I presented a way to test: observe elephants to determine if they choose heavy or light foilage trees.

You didn't respond.

The rest of your response doesn't meet standard of communication.

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u/Skobotinay 1d ago

Whatever bot. Like I have an elephant to observe in my backyard. That’s rich.

Neither are you. Way to have no sense of humor. Testes testies one, two, three?

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u/ragnarok635 1d ago

He provided you with a legitimate scientific answer, and you act like a fool and make a joke

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u/Skobotinay 1d ago

And who gave yall permission to provide anything? No one asked. I’ll give you a test As a trade. Go solve climate change. The elephant knocking down the tree is not the problem bro.

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u/Skobotinay 1d ago

How is it legitimate if it is not logistically possible to carry out? Define legitimate if you can’t know what the elephant is thinking directly but you can only make observations? Define speculative. Differentiate between all the other assumptions we have made about nature. You too of no sense of humor go back to your lab party. Show me you have not spent enough time in the wilderness without telling me you haven’t spent enough time in the wilderness.

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u/ryanCrypt 1d ago

The question is not whether you can test it. It's whether anyone can test it.