In common: nothing Inscrutable: everything (Anybody who thinks "we'd have math in common" should learn some Umbu-Ungu.)https://twitter.com/TimSweeneyEpic/status/1223825883192008705 …
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To think otherwise is a failure of imagination. If everyone had eidetic memory, how would that change our programming languages? If everybody had perfect metacognition? How would a hivemind write programs? Gaseous lifeforms? Sapient shadows?
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Odds are, when we first encounter another intelligent civilization, we'll both be thinking "I had no idea that was even biologically possible". Then fifty years of xenologists figuring out how to talk to each other, then another fifty of figuring out unspoken assumptions in minds
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"How do you deal with race conditions?" <<We don't need to, we can perfectly track all the timelines in our minds and write the code to never have a race condition>> "Wow." <<When addition is angry how do you calm it>> "We don't need to, our math isn't sapient." <<Wow>>
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Or it could be like this https://www.eyeofmidas.com/scifi/Turtledove_RoadNotTaken.pdf …
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There’s a line of thought that you see in a lot of different philosophers that says roughly: any entity that we can understand as having thoughts must (in general) obey the laws of logic, otherwise it would be completely arbitrary what thoughts we attribute to them.
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One paper: https://humstatic.uchicago.edu/philosophy/conant/Search%20for%20Logically%20Alien%20Thought%20-%20clean%20searchable%20copy.pdf …, though my decade old recollection is that it’s rather difficult.
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