What would you do if we detected incontrovertible signs of a high energy alien civilization 1500 light years away?
Hypothetically
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1/ Re-evaluate questions around AI and alignment. We can’t be as close (historically) to AGI as some suspect and then observe a civ more advanced than us that isn’t exploding at a pace powered by compounding super-intelligence.
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Replying to @mattparlmer
Further hypothetical, let's say we see them growing at 0.5 light years per year, what now?
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2/ if they are powered by compounding SI then they should probably be deconstructing all the systems they start encompassing and enclosing stars in their domain in Dyson swarms. If we see that…. better start pouring Manhattan project x million $$$ into our own AGI research
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Go around them and direct them in the opposite direction. All when they get there observe everything you can and run
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What about a space faring people who never develop computers? Rare but possible?
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