6 comments

  • SapporoChris 38 minutes ago
    "She remained with it for several hours and possibly even days." Interesting article, but that comment veers into speculation. Speculation diminishes the value of a scientific article.
    • adzm 30 minutes ago
      I'm confused by how that is speculation.
      • SapporoChris 20 minutes ago
        The key word is possibly. Any statement with possibly in it could be true or false, it is speculation.
      • aaron695 1 minute ago
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  • gigatexal 51 minutes ago
    Any parent here who has known this loss can relate. Didn’t think I’d see this on HN but yeah this is heartbreaking.
  • georgemcbay 16 minutes ago
    Blows my mind that so many people just have this hardened internalized idea that we're somehow significantly different than any other animal.

    Sure, we've got them beat on language and planning, but we're currently in the process of being passed up on both those fronts by multi-dimensional arrays of floating point numbers sitting inside of sand. So, like, how special is that then, really?

    • ggsp 5 minutes ago
      I know the point you’re making is half facetious—do you feel like LLMs are specifically getting better at planning?
      • georgemcbay 1 minute ago
        > do you feel like LLMs are specifically getting better at planning?

        When harnessed, yes. They still stuck at it, but they are getting significantly better over a relatively short time.

        And you don't have to look very far in any direction economically or politically to wonder if humans are really as good at planning as we like to think. Because a lot of things we are responsible for aren't going very well.

    • card_zero 9 minutes ago
      Do LLMs grieve?
      • georgemcbay 5 minutes ago
        Nope.

        They can pretend to, of course, and use the language of grief, but if you can't feel the cold bottomless pit that has bored through your gut then you aren't really grieving.

  • zer00eyz 45 minutes ago
    Orcas have also been seen to carry their dead calf's around.

    https://www.fisheries.noaa.gov/feature-story/southern-reside...

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