Most of the arguments ignore premise 5 (time scale). I'm sure that if Stephen Hawking had a magical cat-pausing time freeze machine, unlimited budget, no deadli

Most of the arguments ignore premise 5 (time scale). I'm sure that if Stephen Hawking had a magical cat-pausing time freeze machine, unlimited budget, no deadline, every sensor known to science, and a few million similarly equipped assistants, he could have figured out how to get the cat in the cat carrier. People have no intuitive comprehension of what a microsecond feels like. The article references Yudkowsky, but doesn't mention that he wrote a story about this exact issue: https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/5wMcKNAwB6X4mp9og/that-alien-message https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/5wMcKNAwB6X4mp9og/that-alien...