Re:What Should We Do If Extraterrestrials Show Up?
by eikenberry on Sunday April 18, 2021 @09:00PM
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Star Trek's Borg are an interesting step along this line of thought. They are a collective intelligence, described as a collection of individual consciousnesses, which may or may not count as a "sole being". But how their collection is unified and organized is interesting to think about.
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Re:What Should We Do If Extraterrestrials Show Up?
by api on Sunday April 18, 2021 @09:10PM
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The Borg are much easier to imagine today than they were in the 90s. Incredibly prescient bit of sci-fi.
How does the collective work?
They’re all jacked into the boards constantly meme-ing each other.
That’s how the whole thing got started in the first place too. You had a weird cult like Qanon get memed into existence and then they got Neuralink. Then the cult became a malignant superintelligence that set about conquering the universe to exterminate the Satanic pedophiles.
“We are Borg! Resistance is futile! Where we go one we go all!”
Something like that... very easy to imagine. We are close.
Re:What Should We Do If Extraterrestrials Show Up?
by loopz on Monday April 19, 2021 @01:12AM
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They never found any satanic pedophiles though.
Re:What Should We Do If Extraterrestrials Show Up?
by api on Monday April 19, 2021 @08:46AM
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That's not how it works. All non-Borg are by definition, which is why they must assimilate all normies.
Seriously though... take an online cult and add Neuralink and something like the Borg could actually happen.