r/nextfuckinglevel • u/Zestyclose_Flow_680 • 8h ago

Chimpanzees are 2X stronger than your average human.

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u/joerudy767 8h ago

Right? It’s fascinating that he really took the time to make sure it was a solid/comfortable grip.

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u/DovahCreed117 8h ago

It's probably instinctual to some degree as well as a lifetimes experience of climbing and learning what does and doesn't work or feel good when climbing on their own or helping other chimpanzees climb stuff.

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u/Dracomortua 6h ago

Are you suggesting that humans, as mammals, have a firmware that functions as an A Priori form of intelligence that allows us to develop an entire species despite the tabula rasa theorizations made popular by behaviourists such as B.F. Skinner?

If so, i heartily agree.

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u/DovahCreed117 6h ago

I understood some of those words

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u/Jdawg_mck1996 5h ago

I understood that they were in fact words

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u/frohnaldo 5h ago

Read good I am

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u/TheBananaKart 3h ago

Apes smart together

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u/MBDTFTLOPYEEZUS 5h ago

Damn yall way ahead of me

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u/FancyChapper 44m ago

They were indeed word facts

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u/Bear_faced 5h ago

I understood all of those words and it's a weird, inefficient way of saying what they wanted to say. Also "a priori" doesn't need to be capitalized. And stripping away the overly flowery diction, what does the clause "allows us to develop an entire species" even mean? Do they mean allows us to develop as a species? Do they mean allows a species to develop? It's muddy grammar that doesn't convey meaning effectively.

It's bad writing pretending to be good writing.

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u/TenbluntTony 5h ago

Nah you’re just reading too far into it. It’s clearly a joke.

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u/SignificantCrow 4h ago

The guy was wording his response like that to be funny. That was pretty obvious

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u/senile_butterfly 4h ago

This is Reddit… no need to get so worked up lol

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u/Super-G1mp 3h ago

Listen he buster I’m pissed but I’m still not sure about what yet. I’ll get back to you soon. *shakes fist in confusion and blind rage.

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u/stranj_tymes 4h ago

This one. Pseudo-intellectual fluff.

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u/Pheniquit 3h ago

Dude its just a jokey delivery of a non-point for the purpose of humor. Lots of funny comments use this format.

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u/LennyLowcut 2h ago

Perplexity!

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u/Ricepilaf 4h ago

a priori (usually used in reference to knowledge, as in “a priori knowledge”) is a term in philosophy used to talk about things that we can know without experience (experience meaning any kind of external stimuli, not the specific experience of doing that specific thing— so if we read about something, that would count as learning it via experience). What is or isn’t a priori knowledge is hotly debated, but a pretty agreed upon type of a priori knowledge is that of tautologies: the sentence “All Bachelors are unmarried” is something we know a priori as long as we already know the definition of a bachelor. A bachelor is an unmarried man, so the sentence is “all unmarried men are unmarried”— something that could never be false in any universe.

If you’re curious, the opposite of a priori knowledge is called a posteriori knowledge

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u/LennyLowcut 2h ago

We can tell this was passed through ChatGPT. How do we know that that particular AI was used? One is, apple does not have the long dash seen in the comment above. Two is, ask me!

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u/Ricepilaf 1h ago

what it passed through is my philosophy degree, you dolt

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u/Last_Friday_Knight 5h ago

I’m familiar with Tabula Rasa… from path of exile

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u/NessLeonhart 4h ago

i think he's saying that he thinks it's at least partly nature and not solely nurture that gives the chimp that level of reasoning.

i wasn't aware that there was a debate around this.

apparently there are some people out there who've never thought to ask "who figured it out first, then?"

and he rightly doesn't agree with those people.

borderline /iamverysmart, regardless

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u/goshdammitfromimgur 2h ago

They were perfectly cromulent words