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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...
concupiscible dilemma
  06/03/26
I'm guessing if you had to calculate a SPERM WHALE'S "I...
concupiscible dilemma
  06/03/26
aren't their brains like literally smaller than ours
Big Menage
  06/03/26
some of the smaller dolphins and porpoises I think, but they...
concupiscible dilemma
  06/03/26
no, it's the brain:body size ratio that is in human's favor....
Olive boltzmann theatre
  06/04/26
yeah encephalization quotient has ended up being far less pr...
concupiscible dilemma
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the apes are threatened by Aquatic Mammal Acumen
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they are also very social. even the 52-hertz whale probably ...
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concupiscible dilemma
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The 52-hertz whale has massive amounts of rizz through Myste...
concupiscible dilemma
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mfcr he's 180 even with Mating Prospects Abandoned
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Sounds like a poster
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The sperm whale’s eyes are so far apart that he’...
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Date: June 3rd, 2026 11:38 PM
Author: concupiscible dilemma

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.

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Date: June 3rd, 2026 11:39 PM
Author: concupiscible dilemma

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

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Date: June 3rd, 2026 11:40 PM
Author: Big Menage

aren't their brains like literally smaller than ours

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Date: June 3rd, 2026 11:43 PM
Author: concupiscible dilemma

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: Olive boltzmann theatre

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.

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Date: June 4th, 2026 1:51 AM
Author: concupiscible dilemma

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=2Vannesa#49914307)



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Date: June 4th, 2026 2:26 AM
Author: Exhilarant puce kitchen hominid

the apes are threatened by Aquatic Mammal Acumen

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Date: June 5th, 2026 9:29 AM
Author: soul-stirring gaming laptop brethren



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Date: June 6th, 2026 9:20 PM
Author: charismatic digit ratio telephone



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Date: June 4th, 2026 1:16 AM
Author: vibrant anal hall



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Date: June 4th, 2026 1:25 AM
Author: Exhilarant puce kitchen hominid

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

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Date: June 4th, 2026 1:51 AM
Author: concupiscible dilemma



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Date: June 4th, 2026 2:01 AM
Author: concupiscible dilemma

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

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Date: June 4th, 2026 2:29 AM
Author: Exhilarant puce kitchen hominid

mfcr he's 180 even with Mating Prospects Abandoned

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



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Date: June 4th, 2026 7:18 AM
Author: Multi-colored glassy brunch doctorate

Sounds like a poster

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5870967&forum_id=2Vannesa#49914358)



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Date: June 6th, 2026 9:19 PM
Author: Exhilarant puce kitchen hominid



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Date: June 6th, 2026 9:20 PM
Author: charismatic digit ratio telephone



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Date: June 4th, 2026 7:40 AM
Author: talented school cafeteria



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Date: June 6th, 2026 9:20 PM
Author: charismatic digit ratio telephone



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Date: June 4th, 2026 7:27 AM
Author: mustard mental disorder

The sperm whale’s eyes are so far apart that he’s Multitasking his ass off, looking in 2 completely opposite directions and taking it all in. Herman Melville wrote about just this for approximately 50,000k words. This would totally overwhelm humans cognitively, as evidenced by the failure of Star Fox Zero.

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Date: June 4th, 2026 10:05 PM
Author: charismatic digit ratio telephone



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Date: June 5th, 2026 3:22 AM
Author: Exhilarant puce kitchen hominid



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Date: June 5th, 2026 9:29 AM
Author: soul-stirring gaming laptop brethren



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Date: June 5th, 2026 10:57 AM
Author: Big Menage



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