slothrop@lemmy.ca to Mildly Interesting@lemmy.worldEnglish · 7 days agoCrows are intelligent birds and learn quickly – even from each other. In Sweden, they are used to collect cigarette butts and bring them to a machine that automatically rewards them with peanuts.lemmy.caimagemessage-square108linkfedilinkarrow-up11arrow-down10file-text
arrow-up11arrow-down1imageCrows are intelligent birds and learn quickly – even from each other. In Sweden, they are used to collect cigarette butts and bring them to a machine that automatically rewards them with peanuts.lemmy.caslothrop@lemmy.ca to Mildly Interesting@lemmy.worldEnglish · 7 days agomessage-square108linkfedilinkfile-text
minus-squareIninewcrow@piefed.calinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·7 days agoI think it would be a lot easier to train humans to stop throwing cigarette butts on the ground Or even to train other humans to tell humans not to do that Or train other humans to penalize, threaten or punish other humans who throw cigarette butts on the ground
minus-squarepulsewidth@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up0·7 days agoThat’s what we’ve tried for hundreds of years and it didn’t work. Turns out it’s easier to turn to a more intelligent species 😉
minus-squareexplodicle@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·7 days agoI think it would be really hard. The humans in charge of humans would just form some sort of in-group and stop enforcing the original rule.
I think it would be a lot easier to train humans to stop throwing cigarette butts on the ground
Or even to train other humans to tell humans not to do that
Or train other humans to penalize, threaten or punish other humans who throw cigarette butts on the ground
That’s what we’ve tried for hundreds of years and it didn’t work.
Turns out it’s easier to turn to a more intelligent species 😉
I think it would be really hard. The humans in charge of humans would just form some sort of in-group and stop enforcing the original rule.