Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Dolphin communication, the babelfish, and bad AI
b'Adaptations \\n\\n
Appreciating the book(s). Bigtime. Adapting Douglas Adams. Remembering the text adventure video game exists.
\\n\\n Dolphins \\n\\nDolphin intelligence. It\\u2019s not about how smart they are, it\\u2019s about how they\\u2019re smart. Mammalian sameness as an avenue into better understanding life in the sea. Dolphin communication. Dolphin \\u201clanguage\\u201d and the possibility of translation. The Dolphin C.H.A.T. interface.
\\n\\n Betelgeuse \\n\\nBig star! Red supergiant, 9th brightest in our sky. \\u201cBrightness\\u201d outside the visible spectrum. Dying stars gnoshing on their planets before going off.
\\n\\n Life form dominance \\n\\nMetal boxes, taking over the planet and slowly digesting the soft squishy things inside them. Street Fighter-style car-breaking. How to judge the \\u201ctop\\u201d species of a world.
\\n\\n Babel fish \\n\\nUniversal translators. A visit from Nick Farmer from the past, when we asked him about universal translators in our Q&A #2.
\\n\\n Space is big \\n\\nMind-bogglingly big! The bigness of space and the difficulty in finding a sense of scale from a human perspective.
\\n\\nSpace is big. You just won\\u2019t believe how vastly, hugely, mind-bogglingly big it is. I mean, you may think it\\u2019s a long way down the road to the chemist\\u2019s, but that\\u2019s just peanuts to space.
\\n\\n-Douglas Adams
\\n\\n AI \\n\\nDoors deriving sexual pleasure from providing their service. Polar opposite extreme AI demeanors. Deep Thought and AI constraints.
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- \\n\\t\\t\\t\\tThe Hitchhiker\'s Guide to the Galaxy The Game: BBC Radio 4\\n\\t\\t\\t \\n\\t\\t\\n\\t\\t\\t
- \\n\\t\\t\\t\\tDRONE Solar System Model by Mark Rober: YouTube\\n\\t\\t\\t \\n\\t\\t\\n\\t\\t\\t
- \\n\\t\\t\\t\\tVFX Artist Reveals the True Scale of the Universe by Corridor Digital: YouTube\\n\\t\\t\\t \\n\\t\\t\\n\\t