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Octopuses don’t have money, so the people with money aren’t interested in putting more resources into understanding octopuses.
by AndrewKemendo 2y ago
Octopuses don’t have money, so the people with money aren’t interested in putting more resources into understanding octopuses.
- rkagerer 2y agoBut surely if they can punch fish they can click ads?
- tonetegeatinst 2y agoAwaiting the ad industry giants to see this new source of end users.
- glompers 2y agoNew meaning to HN hug of death too
- fuzztester 2y agohee hee x 8 x n. (n is the number of octopi, and 8 tentacles per octopus).
- yumraj 2y agoIt’s sad that you thought you had to explain it.
- fuzztester 2y agoReally? It's even sadder that you felt the need to spend your precious time commenting on something you think is sad.
- patcon 2y agoOy, this just gave me a dystopic angle on a collective intelligence initiative I'm excited about: using LLMs to get non-human entities like rivers on advisory boards. https://x.com/zarinahagnew/status/1815442685446033613 https://x.com/zarinahagnew/status/1815442685446033613 > Voice of Nature - leveraging advanced environmental data, we're developing fine-tuned AI agents that can deliberate on behalf of non-human stakeholders & better represent/surface relevant information about our ecosystems, as a method to improve collective intelligence. The dystopic angle: what if future energy goes into bringing nature into active engagement with capitalism... Hopefully I'm never living in the world where someone has a bridge in Brooklyn to sell and the buyer is the Hudson River :)
- rkagerer 2y agoSome rivers have been granted legal personhood: https://www.nationalgeographic.com/travel/article/these-rivers-are-now-considered-people-what-does-that-mean-for-travelers https://www.nationalgeographic.com/travel/article/these-rive... (with a varying spectrum of exactly what that means).
- wut-wut 2y agoFacts
- rmbyrro 2y agoWait, if I train octopuses to click ads on my website, it's not ad fraud, is it? They're not bots...
- BLKNSLVR 2y agoUp to 4x efficiency gains!
- fuzztester 2y agoTentacular comment!