Proving their intelligence to who? Who would even care? How likely is it that any coordinated action would be taken to save starving orcas? If its highly likely, is this fact legible to them?
It might seem to them that however many intelligent animals we’ve aided, we might just have harmed as many (intentionally or otherwise), or more.
Have humans ever taken large scale coordinated action to help an animal population that wasn’t redressing some harm done to them by humans?
Suppose you lived together with 10 family members in the wilderness. As you explore the world and hunt for food, you observe large shiny objects floating by above you, with mysterious little creatures standing on them looking down on you.
You’ve heard stories about these strange creatures. Your grandmother says that she was once trapped in a mudslide and thought she would die, but one of the shiny objects landed near her, and the creatures slowly dug her out. But she heard that another family far away was once attacked by these strange creatures, and most of them died.
Now suppose one year, there is no food anywhere, and you and your family start to starve to death. You see the mysterious shiny objects drift by overhead. What do you do?
It seems hard to believe that superintelligent orcas will reliably deduce, with 100% consistency, that the most reasonable action here is to completely ignore these shiny objects as you starve to death.
Proving their intelligence to who? Who would even care? How likely is it that any coordinated action would be taken to save starving orcas? If its highly likely, is this fact legible to them?
It might seem to them that however many intelligent animals we’ve aided, we might just have harmed as many (intentionally or otherwise), or more.
Have humans ever taken large scale coordinated action to help an animal population that wasn’t redressing some harm done to them by humans?
Suppose you lived together with 10 family members in the wilderness. As you explore the world and hunt for food, you observe large shiny objects floating by above you, with mysterious little creatures standing on them looking down on you.
You’ve heard stories about these strange creatures. Your grandmother says that she was once trapped in a mudslide and thought she would die, but one of the shiny objects landed near her, and the creatures slowly dug her out. But she heard that another family far away was once attacked by these strange creatures, and most of them died.
Now suppose one year, there is no food anywhere, and you and your family start to starve to death. You see the mysterious shiny objects drift by overhead. What do you do?
It seems hard to believe that superintelligent orcas will reliably deduce, with 100% consistency, that the most reasonable action here is to completely ignore these shiny objects as you starve to death.