Originally published at: https://boingboing.net/2019/10/07/for-the-first-time-pigs-have.html
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My neighbor’s pigs are always borrowing my tools and never bringing them back.
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Smart? Yes. And they continue to be delicious.
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Somebody invent a porcine wrench and put those hogs to work!
Who said “four legs bad”?
Monkeys are too sketchy, and lets face it, AI is too expensive in 3rd world countries.
Hand it over to pigs - and if they don’t cut it there is always prosciutto. What better incentive?
How difficult can it be to do some gene engineering and give them a hand with opposable thumbs? OK, a cartoon hand with 3 fingers then (and gloves).
Go the whole hog - graft a human voice box onto the swine and put them to work in Call Centers!
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Intelligence and sentience are not exclusive to humans. Not even close. Our descendants, assuming we allow them to exist, will be horrified at how we treated other intelligent beings.
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Further evidence of tool use in pigs can be found in the highly cited paper:
“Use of mixed materials in porcine dwelling construction, and their various resilience to lupine weather modification techniques”
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That is an old old paper with minimal reproducibility until now. More recent citations required.
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Vigorous refutations have been published questioning both methodology and conclusions…
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Those scientists need to take a break now and again and watch some television. Pigs have been showing their skillz for years now.
Ziplinging:
Jetskiing:
Using the phone:
Eating pizza with a fork:
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Pigapocalypse is among us! Rise and Repent! See the Revelation!
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I was going to say, that I think the thumbnails of two consecutive posts were switched:
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That Visayan warty pig is a very pretty pig breed!
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Don’t overlook Goose’s A longitudinal cohort study of 5 piggies: one who went marketing, one who stayed home, one who ate roast beef, one who had none, and one who cried “wee, wee, wee” all the way home. (M. Goose, the Journal of Cautionary Tales and Nursery Rhyming, 1700)
You’d think that such a long running study would have methodological problems, but Goose brings a tremendous amount of rigor to the work; none of her many collaborators puts so much as a toe out of line.
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Pretty sure that is how we got Rush Limbaugh. Let’s not try that again.
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Does this mean we can’t have bacon anymore?
So, the Trump thumbnail here sort of blasts @anon29537550 post re human intelligence and sentience out of the water!
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Yeah, I got nothin’. Sentience is not evident in all (or maybe even most) humans, and that is certainly case in point.
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Anyone ever read any Alastair Reynolds?..
