Oddbean new post about login | logout @Electric Pants :prince_dance: They're treating the bear like a big dog, which is...OK, but not what I'm getting at. What if we could teach the bears to communicate properly with us? Maybe we could get them to do simple manual labor for treats, put them on TV and entertain us, and generally interact with them much like we do people.
@Christmassy Merry Dude @Electric Pants :prince_dance: I've seen this. Biomega.png https://bae.st/media/5fc0082f7557c60a5a8b436bb43dce15e0f6e797bdb58f8debe3a938728255e1.png?name=Biomega.png
@:desuposter_club: :athf_carl: :anubis_hype: :jahy_... @Electric Pants :prince_dance: Superior society to the US.
@Christmassy Merry Dude @Electric Pants :prince_dance: Highly Advanced. Bear Ninja.mp4 https://bae.st/media/7beedd8f3e51b1c4789e0c35cae63da2223bd95b97b5b7b5a04c0bb7e093d3b5.mp4?name=Bear%20Ninja.mp4
I support the right to arm bears.
@Christmassy Merry Dude @Electric Pants :prince_dance: you are talking about dark materials armored bears levels of ursine intellect
@b8ed4588 @Electric Pants :prince_dance: Bears are smarter than niggers and so we should expect to be able to achieve something similar to what I'm suggesting.
@Christmassy Merry Dude @b8ed4588 @Electric Pants :prince_dance: But they don't have the communication genes. Any society with bears would ultimately boil down to them being trained, domestic animals in the best case scenario. They are fundamentally different than humans, and so direct comparisons must maintain an extremely specific scope. Too broad or too much extrapolation and you run into the issue of comparing apples to freight trains.
@Pensive Weeb @b8ed4588 @Electric Pants :prince_dance: >But they don't have the communication genes. But bears *do* communicate with each other! I don't see why they couldn't be trained to communicate with humans. >Any society with bears would ultimately boil down to them being trained, domestic animals in the best case scenario. In the 1800s we trained niggers to do farmwork. I don't see why we couldn't do something similar with bears, which are far more intelligent and sociable.
@Christmassy Merry Dude @b8ed4588 @Electric Pants :prince_dance: Language would probably have been a better word than communication. Do bears 'talk' or do they 'communicate'? Dogs communicate, crows communicate, dolphins communicate, and yet none of them talk. Without language there can be no integration into human society.
@Pensive Weeb @b8ed4588 @Electric Pants :prince_dance: This is a little deeper. Black bears have near-universal body language, but their tongues didn't evolve for spoken language like humans. Some sort of sign language may be possible. I don't think anyone's tried to do it with bears yet, but I don't see any reason why we couldn't.
