We’re close to translating animal languages – what happens then?
We’re close to translating animal languages – what happens then?
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We’re close to translating animal languages – what happens then?
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There was some stand up comedian who had a joke about how all dogs are basically just yelling "FUCK! FUCK!" All the time. There isn't really a bark that means "everything's chill"
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I found a YouTube link in your comment. Here are links to the same video on alternative frontends that protect your privacy:
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No we’re not lol
This AI shit is going to cause me to lose my sanity
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yeah but it will generate something relatively coherent and people will certainly interpret it that way
anyway check out this video of my cat staring out a window - it has that look on its face with its eyes half-closed because I told it that it's in timeout, and not just because it's sitting in the warm sun looking out a window
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excited for when we get livestock pleading for help and people just ignore it
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“You’re being anthropocentric. ‘It hurts, please help me!’ is actually a perfectly normal greeting in most animal cultures.”
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Using magic to look into the future is cheating.
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Ok look, they say "Please stop, I want to see my children" but does that really mean what a naïve interpretation would have us think? I mean it's not like they didn't scream before, I don't think this should move the needle on the extremely simple idea that:
Humans are uniquely endowed with some property that makes suffering meaningful, human emotions and thought can be influenced by the state of the brain but there is no transformation or variation of the brain that can remove the special endowment of meaningful emotional states short of utter destruction, other animals which may share similar brain structures or behaviours cannot have this meaningful suffering unless they are charismatic, even then they will always be secondary to arbitrary humans in concern because they lack special endowment, evolution has converged on extremely complex organs and patterns many times and includes many arrangements or systems which seem implausibly likely evolving dozens of times but it is utterly inconceivable that consciousness could also evolve earlier than humans or multiple times. Also bacon lol get wrecked.
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Pain. Pain. Pain. Pain.
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That was a hell of a doctor who episode
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ALERT, ALERT: The food bowl is at 44% capacity. Action required. ALERT, ALERT: The food bowl is at 43% capacity. Action required. ALERT, ALERT: The food bowl is at 42% capacity. Action required. ALERT, ALERT: The food bowl is at 41% capacity. Action required. ALERT, ALERT: The food bowl is at 40% capacity. Action required.
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AI may soon be able to decode whalespeak
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The first whales they translate are chud whales so we learn about whale racism and assume it's normal for whalekind.
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Grok AI: the whales are singing "kill the Boer" actually
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White Whale
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Whales seem to have vocalizations that follow the same complexities as human speech. I doubt most animals are capable of something as complex as that. Their research has been extremely promising, they even figured out how to call a wild whale to a research vessel to talk, and the whale circled the vessel and tried to speak to it more.
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The whale protracted people’s war nears ever closer.
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we'll get extremely depressed
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I bet cats have some wild slurs
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That one weird bellowing howl my cat does when he's in the hallway alone is definitely some sort of swear
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- so we can reckon with over a century of cruel treatment and make their lives more comfortable, right?
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so we can train them and use them to make rich people richer!
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The AI bubble will finally pop when someone convinces investors that they can teach rats to code.
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My new start up puts a million rats on keyboards and our proprietary AI that runs off a coal power plant the size of a city translates it into code! Play our new rat-made idle game with cute rat cosmetics we stole off deviantart!
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They already did, we call em techbros
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Animals: DON'T TRUST THE MUSHROOMS! KILL THEM ALL! KILLLL TTHHEEMMM AAALLLLL!!!
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We hunt the non-vegans. (In a respectful way and make sure to use all their parts)
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Being able to define a grammar is a far cry from actually being able to assign meaning to individual sequences. Yeah, okay, they taught dolphins a word for "sargasso" but can you especially jump to someone's potato receiver arguably above an itemized "sargasso" but anything personable or are you just playing dolphin Mad Libs?
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