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• ameancow@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  I don’t think I want another class of slave/sex trafficking victims, we have enough problems with manmade horrors creating hell on earth for sentient creatures, we don’t need to make them sapient as well.

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• outhouseperilous@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨22⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Upgrade?

  Have we even seriously tried opening dialogue with elephant or whale tribes?

  I know we jacked off a bunch of dolphins we raised in captivity, but, like… Did we send anthropologists anf linguists?

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  • ameancow@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Did we send anthropologists anf linguists?

    Yes actually, we’ve been studying the language of whales and cetaceans for decades, the study you are referencing, which ended tragically, was part of that ongoing research.

    We are closer than ever to unlocking whale language, and have identified several key areas that are hinting that they have actual grammar, such as connecting sounds between repeated “terms” but even with our best tech, we may never be able to hold a conversation with them, as we live in such vastly different worlds that we can assume that they have extremely different perceptions and may not have the foundational experiences necessary to share words and language.

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    • outhouseperilous@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Dude, we jack off about first contact math abd how we would talk to aliens. Seti was(is?) A thing.

      If we cant talk to fuckers whose antique bones my grandmother decorated her room with, whose grandmother read by the light of the burning flesh of? We have no god damn right to be calling ourselves intelligent or civilized as a species.

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  • qarbone@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Just because we could talk to a whale wouldn’t make them a furry. They need to be anthropoidal to be a furry.

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    • Harbinger01173430@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      I said upgrade.

      Let’s make their bodies more enjoyable for us to see. If we never meet aliens, let’s make them.

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      • outhouseperilous@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        But that’s not an upgrade, it would be a lateral mov. Maube there are whales or eleohsnts with the same weird kinks as us; we don’t know: never asked.

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  • Machinist@lemmy.world ⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    And gave them LSD! Funded by NASA.

    The Dolphin Who Loved Me.

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