Satire: Calling LLM artifacts a 'civilization' while treating intelligent Orcas as mere things
AccBalanced · x · 2026-08-31
Security researcher Halvarflake tweeted a satire: Humans call a message board full of LLM artifacts a "civilization," while treating Orcas—with larger brains than ours and strong evidence of cultural taboos, rites, emotions, and cognition—as little more than things. Nathan Lambert (AccBalanced) retweeted this, labeling it "Peak monkey."
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