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Nevermark01/22/20251 replyview on HN

It feels like maybe you didn’t read what I said, or understand it.

A car was never an example of its own intelligence.

It was an example of our natural human intelligence’s & our growing cultural knowledge’s impact on horses.

How much have horses progressed. Math yet?

More computation doesn’t necessarily mean more intelligence. Horses are smart creatures, I ride one. He is my friend.

But they are not us, not our joint culture, and not any competition for today’s machines in terms of adapting and growing in capabilities.

The fact that machines are far simpler than us or a horse, but advancing faster is much like we were weaker but used our minds better than other apes.

Simpler in the right way is smarter. As many major advances in mathematics have demonstrated.


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MichaelZuo01/23/2025

Your talking as if horses and humans were infinitely far apart, when it’s a lot closer than that, maybe ten million generations. (Assuming the paleontological record is accurate)