Godel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid -
Think about thinking.
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Sunday, 15 October 2017
quote [ Cigarette filters, you find them in the park next to you in the grass, in dirty ditches and under your shoes. What if we could find a way to collect these butts from all corners of our city and precious parks? With crows, that have become perfectly adapted to city life, we can! By training crows to recognize and pick up cigarette filters we can solve this tenacious problem of city pollution. It is the Crowbar that does the training for us and gives out food as a reward. ]
Enjoy the gravy train while you can, crows. You'll be replaced by drones soon enough.
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lilmookieesquire said @ 2:05pm GMT on 15th Oct
[Score:1 Funny]
Stupid crows.
*does menial tasks at work to get digital tokens for food and entertainment* |
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cb361 said @ 2:19pm GMT on 15th Oct
[Score:1 Underrated]
They didn't believe an elephant could fly.
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cb361 said @ 2:31pm GMT on 15th Oct
[Score:1 Insightful]
Not a word about whether they finished building the machine, whether it worked and whether or not the crows participated.
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lilmookieesquire said[1] @ 3:08pm GMT on 15th Oct
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That's because the CEO crow needed to make sure that the shareholder interests were met. The other crows need supervision. They could be lazy or committing fraud. Even the best intentioned crows get lazy and complacent. The treat that dispenses belongs to "the crowbar" not the crows- and it is the job of the CEO crow to make sure the ROI on these treats meets and exceeds last quarter's efficiencies. Of course it's natural, the job of CEO being daunting, and fundamental to the environment, that the CEO crow receive proper compensation and eat every other treat. Not because we desire that, but because otherwise efficiency will drop and the world will be littered with cigarette butts. Is that what you want? A world littered with cigarette butts while young and talented entrepreneurs of "The Crowbar" go out of business?
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Dienes said @ 4:35pm GMT on 15th Oct
Some folks had a similar idea a few years back, with an autofeeder that would exchange coins for food. The idea was that crows and other corvids would be taught to pick up loose change and drop it in the hopper. Somehow that didn't materialize.
They do a great job explaining how it works with trained crows. I don't doubt that it could be effective - although I would worry about the hopper not being fast or reliable enough with the food to maintain the skill. The issue is they don't really have a solid way to teach the skill initially to the birds. That hopper is great for maintenance but its NOT equipped for autoshaping at all. They are talking about the race without discussing how they are going to get the birds to the starting line. |
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HoZay said @ 3:51pm GMT on 15th Oct
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Next: train park-policing crows to attack dog walkers who don't pick up their dog's turds.
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Dienes said @ 4:36pm GMT on 15th Oct
[Score:3 Funsightful]
The trick is to train the dogs to swallow condoms. Then they shit in plastic bags.
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mechanical contrivance said @ 1:44pm GMT on 16th Oct
Make the dogs wear butt bags like horses in a parade.
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