[HN Gopher] Over 300 New 'Nazca Lines' Geoglyphs Have Been Revea...
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Over 300 New 'Nazca Lines' Geoglyphs Have Been Revealed by AI
Author : thunderbong
Score : 61 points
Date : 2024-09-26 18:38 UTC (4 hours ago)
(HTM) web link (thedebrief.org)
(TXT) w3m dump (thedebrief.org)
| vipa123 wrote:
| Does this make more or less likely to be made by aliens in the
| minds of those that think so?
| WJW wrote:
| Who knows what a conspiracy theorist thinks? But honestly the
| fact that geoglyph construction techniques seem to have evolved
| over at least several hundred years to become ever clearer does
| seem to be a(n even stronger) point against. If it was aliens,
| wouldn't they have had the perfect method from the start? In
| fact, if it was actually aliens, why would they not just burn
| the images into the soil from orbit with a laser instead of
| laboriously piling up rocks?
| carlmr wrote:
| >In fact, if it was actually aliens, why would they not just
| burn the images into the soil from orbit with a laser instead
| of laboriously piling up rocks?
|
| They may have tried and accidentally destroyed all the other
| test planets with their death Star.
| tmn wrote:
| My recollection is that the main hypothesis among these
| crowds (where's the conspiracy?) is that the lines are human
| made, but in response to 'visiters'.
| tokai wrote:
| Naming that one figures _the astronaut_ almost feel like
| someone is trolling those types. Looks nothing like an
| astronaut.
| garrettgarcia wrote:
| It does look a bit like an owl
| Frummy wrote:
| It is literally an amogus.. an among us crewmate in the exact
| format of the meme Like the ultimate case of pareidolia it
| has been spotted in trashcans, egyptian hieroglyphs as the
| god Medjed, now here. Wouldn't be surprised if it was fake
| due to this meme alone but the sources I see all look
| completely legit, the image credit guy alone seems almost
| famous in wikipedia
| tokai wrote:
| I must say I don't follow you at all. The two eyes makes it
| look nothing like an astronaut or the amogus crewmate. The
| key visual there is a uniform visor, not two circles.
| Frummy wrote:
| Primarily the two legs, no arms, and backpack Yeah you're
| right there are two eyes which doesnt line up but the
| Internet went crazy for the amogus hieroglyph which also
| had eyes
| halJordan wrote:
| Would love to see the never-AI guys chime in about how'd they'd
| rather not have this than suffer the depredations of BigAI
| Fargren wrote:
| I'm mostly unhappy with the current usage of LLMs. Not sure if
| I qualify as a "never-AI guy".
|
| My main pet peeve is that AI is a blurry term almost to the
| point it has no definitions. It's basically a marketing term.
| AI has been applied, historically, to many trendy and novel
| facets of computer science, until they are not novel anymore
| and then they stop being AI. Expert systems, voice generation,
| image processing, genetic algorithms...
|
| My take on the article: this is cool. I don't think I would
| call it AI though, if I could avoid it.
| wiether wrote:
| Some of them are more like people seeing the shape Jesus or a
| penis in clouds.
| Ancapistani wrote:
| Yeah, I saw this yesterday and while most of these look
| legitimate, some of them are a real stretch.
|
| It does make me wonder if these models suffer from pareidolia.
| If so, does that say anything about how similar they are to
| human intelligence? Or are they basically "inheriting"
| humanity's evolutionary biases as a function of their having
| been trained on human-generated content?
| hedgehog wrote:
| The ground survey provides good confirmation that there was
| some human-created formation, though maybe what exactly they
| depict is harder to figure out.
| throwawayk7h wrote:
| They can be confirmed by looking at the ground up close. The
| shapes are made removing pebbles from the desert floor and
| replacing them with differently-coloured pebbles.
| throwaway918299 wrote:
| looks fake, tbh - like "mary appeared on toast" fake
| timonoko wrote:
| "Orca with a knife". I have seen it before:
| https://photos.app.goo.gl/3sXkwYLboncsNYE8A
| carlosjobim wrote:
| Where is that from?
| sionisrecur wrote:
| A Nazca pot, here's another one and a picture of the whale
| line (article from 2019):
| https://www.antiguoperu.com/2019/11/cabezas-en-el-mar.html
| golergka wrote:
| Could an ancient civilisation have their own Burning Man?
| throwup238 wrote:
| They did have ayahuasca, weeks of free time after the harvest,
| and a huge playa.
| Modified3019 wrote:
| >"Humanoid"
| polishdude20 wrote:
| This reminds me of the ishahara color blindness test.
| joshdavham wrote:
| This is actually a really cool image recognition problem! I can
| imagine that an AI could actually be better at spotting these
| things than humans.
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