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They're probably smart enough that we could train them to farm each other. Split them into two groups, give them limited food, and make them duke it out in unde

They're probably smart enough that we could train them to farm each other. Split them into two groups, give them limited food, and make them duke it out in underwater coliseums. Winners get to raise the next generation, losers become sushi :( Hell, attach some livestreaming, raise some money, sic a few LLMs on them... we can probably learn to talk to them in a decade, teach them to ride dolphins, then invite them onto land to manage other livestock, or fight on UFC...

nerpderp82 3y ago
But that is what we do at the FAANGs
TylerE 3y ago
I’ve seen videos that show frightening intelligence. The biggest limiting factor is that they don’t live very long… 2 years is well past Middle Aged. I’ve read reports of pet octopi that are so curious they climb out of Their tank to explore or be nearer their owner… and can’t get back in, which is fatal on a fairly short time frame
- burnished 3y ago
  The Seattle aquarium had a weird issue with fish going missing for some time (weeks? Months?), the culprit was their octopus letting itself out at night and returning before morning.
rokkitmensch 3y ago
Toshio from Startide Rising comes to mind. I recall another story featuring an octopus bred for intelligence who manages an octopus-only landing vehicle on Titan or something, she smuggles her babies up and then they reproduce in the habitat and...I can't recall how it ends!
- ssfrr 3y ago
  Sounds like Stephen baxter’s Manifold: Time. She’s a squid not an octopus, but same idea. Great book!
foofie 3y ago
> Winners get to raise the next generation, losers become sushi :( If I'm not mistaken, in Spain some bullfighting events that involve matadors killing bulls for entertainment also end up supplying the dead bulls to local restaurants to serve them to tourists. https://www.npr.org/sections/thesalt/2019/08/01/746659693/the-eating-of-the-bulls-from-the-spanish-fighting-ring-to-the-plate https://www.npr.org/sections/thesalt/2019/08/01/746659693/th...
- salad-tycoon 3y ago
  "It's a tough meat," says Anta. "We cut the meat ourselves, then cook it with red wine overnight, and then it's stewed for four hours before we can serve it." Interesting, but I bet it’s no bull when they say el toro is tough. I don’t know the average age of the toro but generally you don’t want the animal to be full of adrenaline and flight/fight hormones as it makes the meat taste weird and tough. At least that’s what it says in our homestead books.
  - pvaldes 3y ago
    > "It's a tough meat," says Anta. "We cut the meat ourselves" For some reason I can't avoid to read this as a masked man with a raspy Hollywood Mexican accent. I hope that people understands that veterinarians are involved in each piece of meat ending in a public restaurant.

nerpderp82 3y ago

But that is what we do at the FAANGs

TylerE 3y ago

I’ve seen videos that show frightening intelligence. The biggest limiting factor is that they don’t live very long… 2 years is well past Middle Aged. I’ve read reports of pet octopi that are so curious they climb out of Their tank to explore or be nearer their owner… and can’t get back in, which is fatal on a fairly short time frame

burnished 3y ago
The Seattle aquarium had a weird issue with fish going missing for some time (weeks? Months?), the culprit was their octopus letting itself out at night and returning before morning.

rokkitmensch 3y ago

Toshio from Startide Rising comes to mind. I recall another story featuring an octopus bred for intelligence who manages an octopus-only landing vehicle on Titan or something, she smuggles her babies up and then they reproduce in the habitat and...I can't recall how it ends!

ssfrr 3y ago
Sounds like Stephen baxter’s Manifold: Time. She’s a squid not an octopus, but same idea. Great book!

foofie 3y ago

> Winners get to raise the next generation, losers become sushi :( If I'm not mistaken, in Spain some bullfighting events that involve matadors killing bulls for entertainment also end up supplying the dead bulls to local restaurants to serve them to tourists. https://www.npr.org/sections/thesalt/2019/08/01/746659693/the-eating-of-the-bulls-from-the-spanish-fighting-ring-to-the-plate https://www.npr.org/sections/thesalt/2019/08/01/746659693/th...

salad-tycoon 3y ago
"It's a tough meat," says Anta. "We cut the meat ourselves, then cook it with red wine overnight, and then it's stewed for four hours before we can serve it." Interesting, but I bet it’s no bull when they say el toro is tough. I don’t know the average age of the toro but generally you don’t want the animal to be full of adrenaline and flight/fight hormones as it makes the meat taste weird and tough. At least that’s what it says in our homestead books.
- pvaldes 3y ago
  > "It's a tough meat," says Anta. "We cut the meat ourselves" For some reason I can't avoid to read this as a masked man with a raspy Hollywood Mexican accent. I hope that people understands that veterinarians are involved in each piece of meat ending in a public restaurant.