[HN Gopher] Humans 40k yrs ago developed a system of conventiona...
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       Humans 40k yrs ago developed a system of conventional signs
        
       Author : bikenaga
       Score  : 34 points
       Date   : 2026-03-04 16:20 UTC (6 hours ago)
        
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       | WalterBright wrote:
       | They could also be simply idle doodling or decorations.
        
         | bryanlarsen wrote:
         | Too bad we don't have a paper that applies information theory
         | techniques to answer that question. Oh wait...
        
           | WalterBright wrote:
           | I remain skeptical.
        
       | iberator wrote:
       | Ha! And someone today at HN laughed at the research of monkeys
       | playing with crystals...
       | 
       | Maybe one day we could communicate with monkeys with marbles and
       | crystals and stuff as SIGN language.
       | 
       | Imagine monkey soldiers becoming reality in AI WARS.
        
         | citizenpaul wrote:
         | Sorry to be the wet blanket. However research on monkeys/apes
         | has for the most part proven that their intelligence is at a
         | dead end and never can progress past what is basically around
         | human 2yo level.
        
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