I’m not sure that we disagree much about how likely Bunny is to be doing complex language. My primary takeaway was not “this dog can talk”, it’s “man, we really should be checking more comprehensively whether dogs can talk.” I tried to be pretty clear about that in the curation notice.
I think early stage science looks more like messing around than like rigorous studies. I think you need to do a lot of messing around before you get to a point where you have something to rigorously study. My curation of this is a celebration of checking things and being curious, not an endorsement of the theory.
I think I do agree that the post’s title and opening epistemic status are too strong (and yeah I think it was a mistake not to include that in the curation notice. I’ll edit it to do so).
I’m not sure that we disagree much about how likely Bunny is to be doing complex language. My primary takeaway was not “this dog can talk”, it’s “man, we really should be checking more comprehensively whether dogs can talk.” I tried to be pretty clear about that in the curation notice.
I think early stage science looks more like messing around than like rigorous studies. I think you need to do a lot of messing around before you get to a point where you have something to rigorously study. My curation of this is a celebration of checking things and being curious, not an endorsement of the theory.
I think I do agree that the post’s title and opening epistemic status are too strong (and yeah I think it was a mistake not to include that in the curation notice. I’ll edit it to do so).