Yeah, so I found the original article for this screenshot, and it's by Dash MacIntyre, a satirist who self-publishes on Medium.
Ah fuck. I was really hoping dolphins were slating us. :(
This doesn't mean they aren't. Just that we don't have proof yet.
We'll have to find some other excuse to duel with them.
People thought this was real?
I didn't think it was real but if it was I wouldn't've been surprised. Does that count?
Yeah, I would have doubts that they come into contact with humans (or our fishing boats/nets) often enough to have words for us. But swear words are a pretty attainable language feature...
256k vessels at the moment, I'd say there is a good chance!
We make the ocean noisy, even if they can’t see us
I mean... A lot of my vocabulary is anti-human, too. Its believable enough to make me wonder.
I mean, there are real projects. I know that the orca population near Vancouver is a focus of decoding mammal language.
They have recordings going back like 30 years and log books to connect the calls to orca behavior. Last I checked (a few years ago) they were pretty far with unsupervised learning on the audio data and we're going to tackle the (barely readable) logbooks next.
I doubt we are far enough to train ai for animal-human translation on more than a conceptual level, and I doubt that I would hear about it from dolphins for the first time.
I expect a widely covered story of translating dogs' barks (or cats) first, and not in a "Hello Human, Welcome back home, I missed you. Please give me food" way (which would be probably fake) but just "Friend! Joy. Hungry"
And I don't know how we could scientifcally differentiate a slur from a descriptive name on that conceptual level.
What I don't doubt is that dolphins have slurs for humans.
I assume the earliest words in any animal language are slurs for humans
I kinda think you might be right. If you have an animal that has nouns wouldn't one of those nouns be for the biologists that keep hanging around it and interacting?
Can already kind of do that with dogs. They're like a Twister board with big buttons the dogs can push. As you say, not whole sentences but "human, leave, dog, sad" is essentially them learning our language.
It's debatable if they really understand it, or if they just press the buttons that make their humans happy. And dogs are really good in spotting even the tiniest clues in our body language
Yea, there was a horse that appeared to do maths but it was just a genius at interpreting human body language https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hqM5sRvZnjc
Dude, we fed LSD to dolphins then gave them a rub and tug in the name of science...
Carl Sagan didn't intend for the researchers to give the LSD to the dolphins. They were supposed to take it themselves to see if it helped them understand the dolphins. May have still ended up in a dolphin wank though.
Yes... science.
That's why professor granola needed a stack of blotter paper and a bucket of lube.
Do you have any idea how stupid people can be?
With the current state of the world it is likely their parting words would be "So long, you assholes killed off the fish"
Wouldn't that be "So long and thanks for all the fish"?
Originally they were thanking the humans for feeding them all the fish. Now they would be telling us off for killing off all the good fish.
I knew they were all talking about me!
Dolphins are federal agents, confirmed.
Yea... hey wait a minute!
(you weren't supposed to let on that we know - abort, abort!)
"Turn's out dolphins are racist as fuck!"
That one episode of SpongeBob was right al along
I am gonna take a wild guess (wo reading the original article), is this one of them studies where they throw a neural net at dolphins and see if it sticks.
It's satire, it's been around since at least 2017.
darn it, I really hoped someone would think that they can understand dolphins with neural networks. I should tone down my expectations.
This is like the dolphins who unionize and strike against the villains organization in starter villain by John sculzi llol
They are particularly angry at someone named "May."
I wonder if they see us some sort of deformed octopus or squid, like our arms/legs just look like tentacles to them?
That is why I call them dolfucks.
I know this is disinformation, i'm going to upvote it anyway.
Meh, I stopped upvoting things because I liked them and started upvoting things I wanted other people to see. That's how the algorithms work anyway
#NotAllDolphins
We are going to find out dolphins use the N word aren't we?
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