A man who listens to whales
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tkdb · · focus · HN ↗
In 1960, Jane Goodall observed chimps using tools, a trait that humans thought unique to us. We now know well over 100 animal species show evidence of tool use, distributed among mammals, birds, fish, reptiles, insects, arachnids, crustaceans, mollusks and echinoderms.
Ants and bees "domesticate" plants and animals.
Tiny frogs are spider cats! (great meme, amazing symbiosis)
Planthopper nymphs employ interlocking gears built into their exoskeletons to synchronize explosive jumps. Caddisfly larvae use pebbles and the same cementitious effect we use for our buildings to construct protective tubes.
The more we look, the more we find remarkable traits and abilities in the life we share this planet with.
The idea that whales, whose brains near-equal and in some ways exceed our own (depending on how you measure), may use a sort of language is not outlandish at all.
duhhhhh1212 · · focus · HN ↗
Don't waste your time.
verdverm · · focus · HN ↗
One might ask if you are doing as much as you engage in this righteous journey of checking articles for everyone
Looks to be something new in the last two weeks. What changed for you?
> Please don't use Hacker News for political or ideological battle. It tramples curiosity.
I want to remind you - and myself - of this HN guideline. I've probably been edging this one lately too
<a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html">https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
duhhhhh1212 · · focus · HN ↗
> Don’t post generated text or AI-edited text. HN is for conversation between humans.
I was under the impression this was okay given the above guideline.
guiambros · · focus · HN ↗
duhhhhh1212 · · focus · HN ↗
Yeah, this is just ignorance. I'm not against using AI systems.
<a href="https://rfd.shared.oxide.computer/rfd/0576" rel="nofollow">https://rfd.shared.oxide.computer/rfd/0576 does a good job of summarizing the problem with AI writing specifically this part: "If, however, prose is LLM-generated, this social contract becomes ripped up: a reader cannot assume that the writer understands their ideas because they might not so much have read the product of the LLM that they tasked to write it. If one is lucky, these are LLM hallucinations: obviously wrong and quickly discarded. If one is unlucky, however, it will be a kind of LLM-induced cognitive dissonance: a puzzle in which pieces don’t fit because there is in fact no puzzle at all. This can leave a reader frustrated: why should they spend more time reading prose than the writer spent writing it?"
clne · · focus · HN ↗