Maybe I'm a little skeptical but it sounds like, "Gee, what we really need is a lie detector for the dogs.". Maybe dogs aren't the right tools for the job.
A jackal's nose for the job
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#12I wonder if these guys will ever hit the civilian market.
Those domesticated Russian foxes are supposedly starting to trickle out.
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#13I can't be the only one who finds the whole forced "inter breeding" bit morally extremely dubious, can I?
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#14I can't be the only one who finds the whole forced "inter breeding" bit morally extremely dubious, can I?
I think you're imagining gamified dog-on-dog rape in poorly lit parking lots, when really it's more akin to a 5 second livestock insemination procedure that the mother probably forgets about an hour later.
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#15Wow, that is the interesting article, not the wikipedia one. Some excerpts: "The groundbreaking approach is based on analyzing the bioelectric activity of the animals' brain and central nervous system" "Because of errors in "signal behavior," the accuracy achieved by the traditional dog method is only 60 percent, says Zaripov. However, the new method being used has increased detection accuracy to nearly 100 percent."
Interesting that it also seems to handle false positives well: > Among other things, the new method makes it possible to detect "a false sit" (when a dog sits to signal that it has found something). "In traditional signal behavior, 'a dog's trick' is hard to detect: The dog does not smile, it does not wink," says Zaripov. "In this case, however, an encephalogram shows that the dog has a conscience. Deep down it knows…
Encephalogram lie detectors for dogs, as they roam the airport. Each day begets a new, ever more interesting layer of futuristic hell.
I can imagine lie detectors being deployed to test whether I was motivated to order a hamburger because of an advertisement I noticed.