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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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Further hypothetical, let's say we see them growing at 0.5 light years per year, what now?

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Yeah - aim the money printer at every AI researcher you can find

12:16 AM · Jul 23, 2021