[cbogie]

couldn’t we approach it like (my understanding of) code breaking worked back in ww2? meta observations of recurrent symbols, like time, start/end message, etc reveal certain consistencies. then we fill in gaps through possible coherences.

while ww2 code breaking contained other human contexts, perhaps like-context observations could allow for certain categories that might reveal linguistic insights of whales. like whale sounds observed consistently near boats, divers, danger, eating, play, etc.

no clue about how LLM/AI systems process meta contextual training data inputs (is this even a valid phrase about AI?! haha) but i hope whale linguists have considered such an approach.