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Re:Artificial Intelligence Searches for Extraterrestrial Int... by brap on Tuesday March 28, 2023 @08:52AM (#35340144)
I see why it’s easy to assume that, but there’s a symmetry, anything that we can say about them they can also say about us…

Personally I think our first encounter with aliens, if we ever have one, is going to be more similar to plants, bacteria, etc. It will be very underwhelming.

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Re:Artificial Intelligence Searches for Extraterrestrial Int... by chatmasta on Tuesday March 28, 2023 @09:05AM (#35340350)
Generally speaking, finding primitive alien life, depending how close to Earth it is, would be very bad news. It would mean the great filter is ahead of us, as Nick Bostrom likes to explain [0].

[0] (timestamped) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3vD4df_63wo&t=382s

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