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Reminder: WHALES are orders of magnitude higher IQ than us

You really think that the 10kg brains of sperm whales are le...
The Penis
  06/03/26
I'm guessing if you had to calculate a SPERM WHALE'S "I...
The Penis
  06/03/26
aren't their brains like literally smaller than ours
an idea whose time has come
  06/03/26
some of the smaller dolphins and porpoises I think, but they...
The Penis
  06/03/26
no, it's the brain:body size ratio that is in human's favor....
t.rick o'treat panama
  06/04/26
yeah encephalization quotient has ended up being far less pr...
The Penis
  06/04/26
the apes are threatened by Aquatic Mammal Acumen
Ape Arrogance
  06/04/26
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Yichudim
  06/04/26
they are also very social. even the 52-hertz whale probably ...
Ape Arrogance
  06/04/26
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The Penis
  06/04/26
The 52-hertz whale has massive amounts of rizz through Myste...
The Penis
  06/04/26
mfcr he's 180 even with Mating Prospects Abandoned
Ape Arrogance
  06/04/26


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Date: June 3rd, 2026 11:38 PM
Author: The Penis

You really think that the 10kg brains of sperm whales are less powerful than our tiny pink 1 kg brains? LJL. We have intergenerational knowledge transfer and tool use, yes which gives us the appearance of being smarter. But I'm talking raw intellectual horsepower. And notice what human do you know that can do three dimensional navigation across massive distances, acoustic modeling of the deep ocean etc. Like they literally dive like two miles deep, ljl at human spatial skills being able to reliably do that, that's why they have IQs that are probably almost immeasurably higher than our own.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5870967&forum_id=2],#49914235)



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Date: June 3rd, 2026 11:39 PM
Author: The Penis

I'm guessing if you had to calculate a SPERM WHALE'S "IQ" it would be somewhere in the MILLIONS. Likely far higher even.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5870967&forum_id=2],#49914238)



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Date: June 3rd, 2026 11:40 PM
Author: an idea whose time has come

aren't their brains like literally smaller than ours

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5870967&forum_id=2],#49914239)



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Date: June 3rd, 2026 11:43 PM
Author: The Penis

some of the smaller dolphins and porpoises I think, but they make up for it with highly folded cortices and large scale connectivity patterns

SPERM WHALES though are the real intellectual giants

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Date: June 4th, 2026 1:13 AM
Author: t.rick o'treat panama

no, it's the brain:body size ratio that is in human's favor. however, they have more folds, so surface area is pretty high.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5870967&forum_id=2],#49914295)



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Date: June 4th, 2026 1:51 AM
Author: The Penis

yeah encephalization quotient has ended up being far less predictive than originally thought though. It isn't totally crazy it produces some answers in the right neighborhood. but also results in absurdities like shrews and small birds getting way too high and elephants and whales too low for their cognitive performance

a lot of the original reason for making it a metric was motivated by Ape Arrogance. We wanted to make a number that showed primate cognition was the best.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5870967&forum_id=2],#49914307)



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Date: June 4th, 2026 2:26 AM
Author: Ape Arrogance

the apes are threatened by Aquatic Mammal Acumen

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5870967&forum_id=2],#49914316)



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Date: June 4th, 2026 1:16 AM
Author: Yichudim



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Date: June 4th, 2026 1:25 AM
Author: Ape Arrogance

they are also very social. even the 52-hertz whale probably has more rizz than the average poaster

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5870967&forum_id=2],#49914303)



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Date: June 4th, 2026 1:51 AM
Author: The Penis



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5870967&forum_id=2],#49914309)



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Date: June 4th, 2026 2:01 AM
Author: The Penis

The 52-hertz whale has massive amounts of rizz through Mysterious Persona Architecture

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5870967&forum_id=2],#49914312)



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Date: June 4th, 2026 2:29 AM
Author: Ape Arrogance

mfcr he's 180 even with Mating Prospects Abandoned

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5870967&forum_id=2],#49914317)