#5 – Moby – June, 2024 (Part III)

A postmortem account of Silver Water, Inc.'s breakthrough communication with sperm whales and the tragic events that transpired off the coast of Baja California Sur in August 2022...

Jun 23, 2024

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The last underwater picture of Eona with the pod. Eona (left) with Caesar (right). October 19th, 2021.

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The December 5th, 2021 GreetUP four-hour shutdown was an unequivocal failure. Even with the unprecedented scale of dedicated neural network compute, the CETO team was unable to deliver the long-anticipated AI breakthrough.

The failure was disheartening for all. An assumption had taken hold throughout the fall of 2021 that access to the compute provided a simple gateway to the team’s “Rosetta Stone.”

“You had more than enough time. You got blasé,” Muck insisted, repeatedly using the word “blasé.”

Muckraker posted on GreetUP that the first shutdown c…

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