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John Greenewald, Jr.
@blackvaultcom
It's like humans attempting to make contact with an ant hill in the middle of the desert. Yet, there is still a small percentage of earthlings that spend their life studying ant hills, mating habits, and their lifestyle because THEY CARE to understand it in the name of science.
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Neil deGrasse Tyson
@neiltyson
How egocentric of us to think that Space Aliens, who have mastered interstellar travel across the Galaxy, would give a shit about humans on Earth.
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Antipodal Gray
@0xGray
1/ I’m new to this area of interest and not sure what I believe or don’t - but this is the easiest argument to refute. It’s fairly common in the field of AI to believe that we are years at min and decades at most to creating an Artifical General Intelligence
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Antipodal Gray
@0xGray
2/ Assuming that is truth, there a more fails to fail than to succeed n a manner that is suboptimal for human welfare - ie. accuse you creating a paperclip maximiser. One of the tropes of such a failure is the slow but inevitable colonisation of the galaxy by this runaway AI
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Antipodal Gray
@0xGray
3/ Thus, unless you want to have your home galaxy converted to paperclips or Doritos or bitcoin mining infrastructure, it is in the strategic interest of any sufficiently advanced intelligences out there to surveil the galaxy for upstart civilisations who might create a sub-op AI
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Antipodal Gray
@0xGray
4/ I should proofread my tweets before sending. Anyway you get the idea - you need to illuminate all corners of the “dark forest” to make sure someone doesn’t accidentally burn the whole thing down. This is so strategically important that I would argue if we don’t see an…
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