Scientists Have Reported a Breakthrough In Understanding Whale Language::Researchers have identified new elements of whale vocalizations that they propose are analogous to human speech, including vowels and pitch.

  • Flying Squid
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    717 months ago

    So what I’m hearing is they can literally talk to each other in a way that we do and we still kill them constantly.

    • @[email protected]
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      667 months ago

      We kill humans constantly too, and we probably obliterated the rest of the hominins also. I’m just saying we have a chequered track record.

        • @[email protected]
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          97 months ago

          While I always love a Mitchell and Webb reference, I can say I don’t think so. I think the book Humanity by Rutger Bregman is a good reminder that we are mostly good.

          • @[email protected]
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            87 months ago

            Agreed. It’s just that it’s really easy for a small amount of people to do a lot of bad things. It’s hard to maintain, harder to build, and easy to destroy.

          • @[email protected]
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            47 months ago

            However take in context that it’s written by a human. Of course we will say we’re mostly good. If Pol Pot wrote a book about Pol Pot he’d probably say he was mostly good too.

            • @[email protected]
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              37 months ago

              Well believe it or not the book isn’t one page whose entire contents read “We’re good”. It is a whole well reasoned length of prose supporting that with reason.

              • @[email protected]
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                47 months ago

                I understand but it’s written by us lol. Not that any other creature can write a book but consider the absurdity for a moment. We are saying we’re mostly good.

      • @[email protected]
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        87 months ago

        I share this understanding with you and this is why I say that AI will absolutely kill us because that is what we would do. It’s trained on our data afterall.

      • Flying Squid
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        27 months ago

        I guess, but it feels to me like wiping out a species close to our intelligence is worse that killing each other.