<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:comic sans ms,sans-serif;font-size:large;color:#000000">I once saw a machine in which was a chicken. You played tic tac toe against it. The board for the chicken was hidden. You made a choice and then the chicken did, getting a treat, and so on. The chicken never lost. I managed to get a view of part of the chicken's board, and when the customer made a choice a square lighted up, cueing the chicken's choice. So a circuit made the choice, not the chicken, of which little intelligence was required. Never caught on, I suppose, though people did play it, for the novelty I reckon. Surely a more intelligent game could be invented for crows. bill w</div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Tue, Jun 22, 2021 at 3:40 PM Stuart LaForge via extropy-chat <<a href="mailto:extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org">extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><br>
Speaking of crows and culture, crows are as smart as 7 year old humans.<br>
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<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VFU03BcV6IY" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VFU03BcV6IY</a><br>
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What is especially interesting is that crows seem to understand the <br>
economics of trade and could be an untapped market sector. Someone has <br>
made a vending machine for crows that gives them food in exchange for <br>
coins.<br>
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<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jcp_FWfYtLY" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jcp_FWfYtLY</a><br>
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Now we just need to give these birds jobs!<br>
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Stuart LaForge<br>
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