[emtel]

How is drugging an animal's food a "brute force tactic"? What would qualify as a non-brute-force tactic in your mind?

[fragmede]

Learning to speak cat and then reasoning with the cat, in cat-ese, to get into the carrier of its own volition.

[famouswaffles]

There is no cat-ese. Cats do not have language.

[jjulius]

Well now we're just ignoring the point for the sake of a semantics debate.

[famouswaffles]

It's just a poor point. Cats are a bad analogy anyhow because there is no cat language. You can't actually speak to them or have a drawn out discussion. But you can with humans and many have inspired thousands or even millions to action doing just that, no super-intelligence required.

[jjulius]

Still missing the forest for the trees.