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Scientists Have Reported a Breakthrough In Understanding Whale Language (www.vice.com)
submitted 11 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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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.

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[–] [email protected] 71 points 11 months ago (1 children)

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] 66 points 11 months ago (3 children)

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] 37 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Are we the baddies?

[–] [email protected] 9 points 11 months ago (3 children)

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] 8 points 11 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] 4 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Is this you?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

Yep. Back left, trying hard not to sexualize Annie.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 11 months ago (1 children)

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] 3 points 11 months ago (1 children)

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] 4 points 11 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] 8 points 11 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.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago

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