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Nah, they'd ignore that, if they even notice. You have to forcibly make them take notice. Like take over a galaxy and make all the stars in it blink in synchron
by ehsanu1 10y ago
Nah, they'd ignore that, if they even notice. You have to forcibly make them take notice. Like take over a galaxy and make all the stars in it blink in synchrony in some sort of code and establish a communication channel.
- yorwba 10y agoReminds me of this short story: http://lesswrong.com/lw/qk/that_alien_message/ http://lesswrong.com/lw/qk/that_alien_message/ Except there it's the higher level contacting humans.
- zamalek 10y agoMore precisely, they probably wouldn't notice that. You have to exceed the singal-to-noise floor.
- sangnoir 10y agoYou are assumming they higher beings are functioning on timescales comparable to ours. Imagine a colony of microbes on an agar block writing out morse code intended for us - but there is no-one and the labs are locked for the night. Yet they keep trying for generations... Alternatively - the spatial scales are very different and an entire galaxy or ours is not observable by their 'naked' eyes.
- ehsanu1 10y agoSure, it really depends on the speed of the simulation relative to their own, and the level of resources poured into this (is it a high school project, or the combined output of their entire civilization? what do they look for inside, if anything?), and of course, their actual objectives. Honestly, who wants to talk to some snot-nosed humans? They probably don't bother checking until the universe becomes one giant superorganism anyways. And even then maybe they just make their observations and ignore it as it tries to wave them down.