if I tell you that I know what it's like to be Dan Garfield, do you believe me? why? that argument is what the Turing Test is about, and ultimately why it's unsatisfactory.
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for plants a day is a breath and a year is a day. what is a star's breath?
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the substrate of stellar consciousness is millions of nuclear fusion reactions per second so they have spectacular processing power, they don't notice us because we're so slow
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and what are they doing with all that processing power? 'mining' heavy elements?
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constructing elaborate fictional worlds and beaming their ongoing stories into the universe *for free*, they're incredibly generous of spirit
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all lies. They tell you that at first, but in the end they all turn into bottomless frigid vortexes sucking the life out of everything.
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Not all stars turn into black holes, most of them turn into grey dwarfs which continue to shine over trillions of years before gradually fading. And black holes can be the energy sources for type II civilizations orbiting them. Stars are inherently benevolent beings.
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this is a fitting tribute for Bowie Memorial day.
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tbh my objection 14-yo objection was more along the lines of "Talking stars?! This is not *real* science fiction, there'll be unicorns and elves next, and probably *kissing*!" (throws book against wall)
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in real SF only androids and disembodied starship computers can talk. androids can AND SHOULD kiss too.
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