Inspired by this market.
Will I have a real conversation with the massive marine mammal that both I and it can understand? A human big-money trader on Manifold would also count!
Keep in mind the conversation has to be audio, not text or etc.
The most likely way for the convo with marine mammal to happen is probably if people successfully decode the whale language with llms.
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People who are just coming here and being surprised- this was a trick market designed to bait traders by Manifold's resident troll @levifinkelstein
For a serious market which actually asks this question, see below
@DavidBolin I don't have a way to refute the claim and don't recall the exact date we talked, seeding doubt
@MarkHamill hey, please note this was a trick market. He did not have a conversation with a whale, but a human.
In the description, it states that having conversation with a rich manifold trader is equivalent to having conversation with a whale for the purposes of this market
@firstuserhere Thanks, I got that! He threw in that bit at the end about decoding whale language using LLMs, which seems to be exactly what this paper has done, for vowels. And the timing right before this resolved is a shocking coincidence imo.
@MarkHamill yeah, its unfortunate for people like you and i who are actually interested in the main question!
@MarkHamill That is incorrect. They did not decode any language. They found patterns. No meaning.
@BrianCaulfield true, he needs to post 100% proof this happened or manifold should force resolve to no!!!!
@CourierSix Agreed.
There are serious efforts by researchers across the globe to decode whale language.
A conversation with a marine mammal would be significant news, and the result of years of work.
There should be a market that follows this important effort in a serious way.
ok @levifinkelstein had a call with @MichaelWheatley
in which case, if the call is authentic, which it likely is (because they've had a call several times in the past as well), the market resolves YES correctly
@firstuserhere How does the call being authentic lead any credence to the claim that Levi had a conversation with a Whale?
@quadruple If you bet on a question where a few people have all the power and knowledge to determine the resolution, expect insider trading. It sucks, I know, but take it as a learning experience.
@quadruple the market creator is banned because of overly subjective or insincere markets, but remaining markets remain open and will resolve over time. there are quite a few fairly subjective markets out there so you definitely have to be discerning in some cases to decide whether you want to participate. but imo this users markets aren't representative of what you'll find on the platform overall.