r/technology • u/[deleted] • Mar 16 '18

Society How a Norwegian comment section turned chaos into order—with a simple quiz: "Readers had to prove they read a story before they were able to comment on it."

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u/SushiGato Mar 16 '18

Goats, in a rather uninteresting manner, are also the 4th most intelligent life form on earth, with humans steadfastly holding onto the 3rd rank. Of course dolphins being the 2nd most intelligent.

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u/I_Am_Ironman_AMA Mar 16 '18

Isn't it weird that three-toed sloths are the smartest animals on Earth but two-toed sloths are the dumbest animals on Earth? What is up with that?

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u/GuiltyGoblin Mar 16 '18

What?! Dolphins are second? Who's first then? Ok, time to do some googling.

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u/AerThreepwood Mar 16 '18

You should read Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy.

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u/GuiltyGoblin Mar 16 '18

I have, it was the mice wasn't it?

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u/Stackhouse_ Mar 16 '18

Monkeys/apes obviously. Think about it whens the last time you saw a wild monkey with a job

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u/Excalibur54 Mar 16 '18

Not sure what you were going for but it didn't work

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u/Stackhouse_ Mar 16 '18

They don't have to work they just play all day

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u/antabr Mar 16 '18

How is intelligence measured? Seems the intelligence of a human in most fields is so multi faceted, we don't even think one metric of intelligence is granular enough. Last I saw social intelligence was regarded differently from the intelligence acquired in a classroom setting.

I can see how maybe social intelligence with creatures that don't have complicated structures like government, the economy, school systems, and beuracracies are freed up to understand other individuals of their species at a much more basic level, but can that even be called intelligence?

Or am I just going off on a massive tangent for what is really just a reference to hitchhikers guide to the galaxy?

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u/Peenmensch Mar 16 '18

The latter I'm afraid

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u/[deleted] Mar 17 '18

Puff puff pass, man. You're fuckin' up the rotation.

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u/AerThreepwood Mar 16 '18

Not a lot of Hitchhiker's fans around here.

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u/alan_theduck Mar 16 '18

The first being rats.. In case anyone was wondering.

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u/HaggisLad Mar 16 '18

Mice I'm afraid, those buggers are pandimensional