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Re:IAC confirms existence of a Super-earth in the habitable ... by nejsjsjsbsb on Tuesday January 28, 2025 @08:35PM (#42860428)
We need to think about where we want the knowledge and what knows it. We could use humanoid AIs. We could hatch humans "just in time". Run them in a sim to 18 then release them on their mission. Ethics would need to accept this. Maybe we would be happy slowly expanding across the universe and an decendant talking to 'the aliens'.

I am not totally serious. But you wanna meet aliens? Gotta do something a bit radical.

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Re:IAC confirms existence of a Super-earth in the habitable ... by stevenwoo on Tuesday January 28, 2025 @08:39PM (#42860463)
If you haven't, you should read Accelerando, it's a collection of short stories IIRC that were put into a novel by the author. I didn't want to start with that, but that is in there. :)
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Re:IAC confirms existence of a Super-earth in the habitable ... by dmd on Tuesday January 28, 2025 @09:39PM (#42860865)
My one-sentence review of Accelerando is "VASTLY better than the first couple chapters will make you believe."
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Re:IAC confirms existence of a Super-earth in the habitable ... by kaashif on Tuesday January 28, 2025 @09:35PM (#42860846)
I'm reading Accelerando right now and there's some unnecessary weird sex stuff at the start.

Good book despite that though, some very interesting ideas.

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Re:IAC confirms existence of a Super-earth in the habitable ... by mad0 on Wednesday January 29, 2025 @04:55AM (#42863268)
If I may suggest another read: Perfect Imperfection by Polish author Jacek Dukaj. It's definitely weirder, than Accelerando, as the book drops you straight into the last parts of evolution curve, but definitely worth reading if you have liked Accelerando.

The story is super weird, but what I found out is that piecing together a picture of a far-future society from this story was very exciting.

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