i think AI is about to uncover an entire hidden world of animal communication
and what it's already found is insane...
> AI found evidence that elephants call each other by name. when researchers played one its name-like call, it approached the speaker faster and called back more, revealing a form of personal naming once thought almost uniquely human
> AI analyzed 53,993 marmoset calls and found tiny monkeys may use names too. entire families use similar labels for the same monkey, suggesting they learn names and dialects from each other
> AI learned to tell what Egyptian fruit bats were arguing about: food, mating, sleeping spots or personal space. it could even partly identify who was shouting at whom inside a colony of thousands
> AI discovered a “phonetic alphabet” in sperm whale clicks, with rhythm, tempo and tiny timing changes combining into at least 143 recurring patterns. their communication system is nearly 10x more expressive than scientists previously believed, and we still don't know what most of it means
> an AI trained on 1.5 million zebra finch calls held real-time vocal exchanges with living birds, generating calls as they spoke and getting them to respond with the same timing and flexibility they use with other birds
> Google trained an AI on decades of dolphin recordings to predict what sound comes next, then paired it with an underwater device that gives objects their own synthetic whistles. the goal is for a wild dolphin to copy a whistle to ask a human for a specific object, creating a tiny shared vocabulary between species
> AI combined microphones worn by wild crows with nest cameras and uncovered quiet calls that may announce when a crow is arriving at the nest and help entire families coordinate caring for their chicks
> a robot bee performed the waggle dance real bees use to share the direction and distance of food, and the bees changed their flight paths based on its instructions. researchers effectively sent a destination into a hive in bee language
"You won't remember when you were free and most people will be fine with that, but you and me will be dead"
The greatest Tim Dillon monlogue of all time...
POV:
One day you wake up and realize your favorite things in life aren’t things at all.
They’re kids chasing fireflies until it’s too dark to see.
They’re burgers on the grill with family in the backyard.
They’re throwing a football around before dinner and hearing everyone argue over which game is on this Sunday.
They’re front porches, tree-lined neighborhoods, waving at the neighbor across the street, and fireworks filling the sky on a warm July night.
When you’re young, you dream about leaving home to see the world.
Then one day you realize you were already living in a place millions of people would give anything to call home.
A place where you can build a business, raise a family, worship how you choose, speak your mind, coach Little League, barbecue with your friends, and dream bigger than your parents did.
No country is perfect.
But standing in the backyard tonight, watching the fireworks with the people I love, it’s hard not to feel grateful for the generations who built this place, defended it, and left us the freedom and opportunity to build lives of our own.
Sometimes the American dream isn’t a mansion or a million dollars.
Sometimes it’s realizing you already have everything you were searching for right.
Happy 250th, America.
You truly are the greatest nation on earth.
And we are so lucky to call you home.
I absolutely love this.
Have one in college and one just graduated HS.. but I have 4 still in the house and we’re definitely implementing!!!
Wished I have done this sooner
Once you hit about a 20-point IQ gap, communication starts to completely break down.
It's not that the lower IQ person is "stupid" (although that can often be the case) or the higher one is arrogant, it's that you're literally operating on different systems.
A 20 point difference (roughly 1.3 standard deviations) means:
Vocabulary and abstraction levels diverge sharply. What feels like crystal clear logic to one side sounds like vague, pretentious word salad to the other. Jokes land flat. Metaphors get taken literally. Complex cause and effect chains get simplified into "this good, that bad."
Different time horizons and pattern recognition. One person thinks in months or years and sees systems, the other is locked into days or immediate rewards. Trying to explain second order effects feels like speaking another language.
Also, processing speed and working memory gaps. The higher IQ person is already three steps ahead, getting impatient. The lower IQ person feels talked down to or overwhelmed.
Both walk away frustrated.
Both have wasted each others time.
-Eşin her kararını sorguluyor ve buna “ortaklık” diyor
-Çocukların ve arkadaşlarının önünde sana saygısızlık ediyor
-Cinsel ilişki nadiren oluyor, ödül olarak kullanılıyor ya da tamamen ortadan kalkmış durumda
-Sana, idare etmesi gereken çocuklardan biriymişsin gibi davranıyor
-Patronuna senden daha fazla saygı duyuyor
-Erkek “arkadaşları” ve duygusal ilişkileri varken sana güvensiz olduğunu söylüyor
-Ailenin geçimini sağlamak için çok çalışıyorsunuz ama kendi evinizde diken üstünde yürüyorsunuz
-Mutsuz olduğu anda boşanmakla tehdit ediyor
-Yüzüğünüz olan, maddi açıdan kapana kısılmış bir ev arkadaşı gibi hissediyorsunuz
"The Lex Fridman - Elon Musk 2027 AI Warning conversation was deleted..."
An AI conversation involving Elon Musk and Lex Fridman left a lot of people unsettled…
Because the deeper they went into the future of AI —
the darker the implications started sounding.
@LibertyLockPod