Risto_Saarelma comments on Open Thread June 2010, Part 2 - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Risto_Saarelma 11 June 2010 10:51:54AM 3 points [-]

Five-second guess: Human-level Machiavellian intelligence needs language facilities to co-evolve with, grunts and body language doesn't allow nearly as convoluted schemes. Evolving some precursor form of human-style language is the improbable part that other species haven't managed to pull off.