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What scenarios do you envision might arise once animals join our ranks? (spectrum.ieee.org)

submitted 1 month ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I heard about this because someone I know personally on here says she's helping to work on this (which by the way sounds like it would perfectly fit the format/structure of the fediverse) and I felt too fascinated to not ask. What are some scenarios that comes to mind when you think of this being a thing?

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

I do hope we would do positive things should we gain the ability to talk with animals. I've watched a bit about Koko and the other gorillas that learned sign language and it's very amazing stuff. It seems to get treated as a novelty though.

I don't know if we can really even assume what another race would do with us. If they're millennia ahead of us, they could probably trick us like when somebody pretends to toss something to a dog. We could luck out and be overall more advanced than them ala The Road Not Taken.

It's easy to see most any animal as an individual if you spend any time with them, yet we still spend most of our coexistence with them treating them as NPCs. I don't know what it would take to win us over as a whole, and I guess that thought just makes me a bit sad.