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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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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

12:14 AM · Jul 23, 2021

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