RobinHanson comments on Boksops -- Ancient Superintelligence? - Less Wrong

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Comment author: RobinHanson 31 December 2009 02:42:49AM *  19 points [-]

Hawks says:

in fact, what happened is that a small set of large crania were taken from a much larger sample of varied crania, and given the name, "Boskopoid." This selection was initially done almost without any regard for archaeological or cultural associations -- any old, large skull was a "Boskop". Later, when a more systematic inventory of archaeological associations was entered into evidence, it became clear that the "Boskop race" was entirely a figment of anthropologists' imaginations.

Pretty damning.

Comment author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 31 December 2009 06:43:16AM 0 points [-]

Thanks for damning this!