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Re:What if the aliens we are seeking are AI? by youeeeeeediot on Sunday September 25, 2016 @08:00PM (#12578179)
Really doubt any extraterrestrial beings would be willing to make contact with us in our current state of development. Maybe if we could go a century without wars or genocide or other atrocities. Honestly unless they want to guide us (ala Childhood's End) I doubt we have anything to offer.
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Re:What if the aliens we are seeking are AI? by gauto on Sunday September 25, 2016 @08:40PM (#12578351)
Yes, it would be like the ants on the other side of my yard waiting for me to come over and have a conversation with them.
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Re:What if the aliens we are seeking are AI? by ams6110 on Sunday September 25, 2016 @08:18PM (#12578262)
Unless maybe we taste good?
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Re:What if the aliens we are seeking are AI? by gauto on Sunday September 25, 2016 @08:52PM (#12578405)
If anything it would just be one of their Von Neumann probes looking to fuel up, probably from Jupiter or Uranus. Maybe it would send some pics of us back to the home world where they might say "oh, those guys look neat, add that one to the inhabited planet catalog"
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Re:What if the aliens we are seeking are AI? by youeeeeeediot on Sunday September 25, 2016 @08:30PM (#12578307)
They'd probably look at us (for food) the way most people look at food currently coming out of China. Polluted garbage.
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Re:What if the aliens we are seeking are AI? by serf on Sunday September 25, 2016 @08:44PM (#12578369)
or perhaps they'd look at us like wild beasts, ripe for cultivation in their factory farms.
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Re:What if the aliens we are seeking are AI? by pavel_lishin on Sunday September 25, 2016 @09:02PM (#12578449)
Sure is a bunch of self-hating H. Sapiens in this thread.
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Re:What if the aliens we are seeking are AI? by youeeeeeediot on Sunday September 25, 2016 @09:21PM (#12578541)
Self-aware != Self-hating
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