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Originally Posted by BigErf
Ok, now rid yourself of the psychology, biology, and computer science perspective and ask yourself:
would you let them drive your car?
You could probably teach a bonobo to drive a car fairly well. Traffic would be a problem, but hey...find some human geezer who lived in the jungle for 20 years and the same would apply.
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would you let them babysit your child?
In all fairness (and sincerity) they could probably do this as well as many babysitters I know. Given some familiarity with the family, house and child ofcourse.
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would you ever call them on the phone?
Yeah, that could actually work with a bonobo. Again it requires training, but then again. Same geezer..20 years in the jungle. Humans need training for this too.
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would you send them to the grocery store with a list of items to bring home?
No, but that has more to do with the difficulty of training up a grocery store.
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would you let them fly a plane?
Take/off and landings no. Flying a plane in itself isn't very difficult...driving is harder. Again...same human geezer w/20 years in the jungle. He ain't going to do much better.
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would you go hunting with them?
yes
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would you trust them to give correct change as your cash-register employee?
No.
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would you let them pay your bills?
I wouldn't let you pay my bills.
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would you like them to read you a story?
It would be very interesting to see how well bonobo language aquisition actually works with training. We know they can aquire writing of symbols as a tool just from being with humans...so training would be incredible.
(Too explain how fantastic this is....we couldn't expect most HUMANS to do what they have done under observation regarding written symbols).
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would you let them install your dishwasher?
No.
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would you let them program your remote?
I don't let my girlfriend do that.
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would you let them navigate on a family vacation?
Def. if it was on their hometurf. If it was on my hometurf I prefer to do it myself.
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I'm really not trying to be sarcastic tame_deuces, I'm just trying to show how alike we're really not.
You probably think you showed that, but you really didn't. If anything they point how remarkably similar our species are.
