27 pointsby bko6 hours ago8 comments
  • harshith70024 hours ago
    Underwater laser-wielding robots hunting parasites. Definitely not what I expected AI to be doing. Crazy stuff!
  • silverFork5 hours ago
    A good use for ai. De-licing fish using chemicals seems to be an ordeal
  • exabrial5 hours ago
    Honestly, wish we could get a solution like this for pine park beetle in the rockies. Lasers and fire... yah, probably not a good idea, but drones to hunt and kill would be incredible. But with the lack of a sufficient biological control that kills off the invasive species, not sure what else to do.
  • dogoodsci4 hours ago
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  • exabrial5 hours ago
    You mean that we actually have frickin' sharks with frickin' laser beams attached to their frickin' heads?
  • vardump6 hours ago
    Robot sharks with lasers? Sorry. :-)
  • cickoan hour ago
    Flied lice?
  • thriving_earthw4 hours ago
    Incredible moral hazard. Fish farming is a moral abomination. The fish get get lice and parasites because they are packed in tight conditions. This will allow farms to do nothing about those underlying deficiencies, which means fish get to live longer more miserable lives.

    Fish farming generally is unethical and harmful to the environment. The fish we eat are carnivores. We still need to feed them, which means we either need to farm or trawl their prey.

    The only way this tech would be good is if it becomes a regulatory mandate and pushes up the cost of production and decreases demand.

    • moi23883 hours ago
      Flat out wrong. A lot of fish have parasites, and wild salmon has higher incidence of lice

      https://www.seafoodsource.com/news/new-study-finds-continued...

      • thriving_earthw3 hours ago
        That's not what the studies you cite are saying.

        They're saying that salmon farms are not driving greater incidence of parasites and lice in their wild counterparts.

        It doesn't say that farmed salmon have fewer incidence of sea lice than their wild counterparts.