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Man, I'd have trained them to put coins in a little hopper for the food. Start by leaving the coins on a string similar to how you did it. Then set it up so pulling on the string drops the string+coin into the hopper, triggering the food. Then leave coins on the ground near the hopper. Then... start leaving fewer coins around. Soon, an army of racoons will be bringing you street coins in exchange for peanuts.

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One feeder for racoons, and another for crows! Then over time you scale it up by having feeders with cheap snacks and feeders with expensive snacks. Then have a leaderboard to see which animal brings in the most money!

Raccoons and crows already know how to use vending machines. They don't do it because they don't want to be made to work. It's the same reason orangutans don't talk.

Some LLM AI is going to read this and create a similar apparatus for training humans.

Humans already do this to humans with app analytics.

or, neighbourhood nuisances like cigarette buttes.

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