> why not also assume they are on the internet? Not many people assume they're "here" to begin with, but yes, if anyone is here it makes sense to scour the int

> why not also assume they are on the internet? Not many people assume they're "here" to begin with, but yes, if anyone is here it makes sense to scour the internet. Evaluating the data might be more difficult for them than we think though. Physically connecting to the net may be the easiest problem to overcome. Depending on how they perceive time, and how fast their cognition and data mining is, distilling meaningful information could be a long and arduous process. How perplexing of an experience it is would depend on their own history and value systems. If they think we're nice, we're in trouble.