Yeah I don’t super stand by the Neanderthal comment, was just grabbing an illustrative example.
I just did a heavy-thinking GPT-5 search, which said “we don’t know for sure, there’s some evidence that, on an individually they may have been comparably smart as us, but, we seem to have had the ability to acquire and share innovations.” This might not be a direct intelligence thing, but, “having some infrastructure that makes you collectively smarter as a group” still counts for my purposes.
From what I can tell from a quick Google search, current evidence doesn’t show that neanderthals were any less smart than humans.
Yeah I don’t super stand by the Neanderthal comment, was just grabbing an illustrative example.
I just did a heavy-thinking GPT-5 search, which said “we don’t know for sure, there’s some evidence that, on an individually they may have been comparably smart as us, but, we seem to have had the ability to acquire and share innovations.” This might not be a direct intelligence thing, but, “having some infrastructure that makes you collectively smarter as a group” still counts for my purposes.