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Trees can appear less unintelligent when their slow activity is viewed in sped-up video.

Richard Socher · Humanity’s Last Invention — Richard Socher of Recursive · 14 Sept 2026

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“kind of its own thing in the sense that all things being equal if it takes you an hour to know if the two plus two equals four you're just not as intelligent as if it takes you like a millisecond right and then like all of these connect to survival and replication the last one it's like yeah like trees are really really slow so we don't even consider them that intelligent but if you speed up some videos of trees and they're trying to find stuff and so on they're not as dumb as they look like not dumb as”
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