How spiky are human abilities vs other animals? An open question on minds
inerati · x · 2026-11-11
inerati poses an open question: what's a good mental model for the relative spikeyness of human abilities versus other animals? Humans are clearly super-specced into language and social cognition, but how other mental abilities compare—and how much raw horsepower advantage we have—remains unclear. The question sparked discussion connecting to Moravec's paradox.
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