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Nah you’d never see it coming and have no prior for believing in it, so not scary. What is scary: a super intelligence alien race enveloping all matter into Dys
by garmaine 7y ago
Nah you’d never see it coming and have no prior for believing in it, so not scary. What is scary: a super intelligence alien race enveloping all matter into Dyson swarms. You’d see stars shifting into uniform infrared emissions in an expanding sphere at nearly the speed of light. Suddenly the stars go dim... and then it reaches you.
- crooked-v 7y agoWell, that gets into game theory stuff, though. For example, one could say that logically any aggressively expansive intelligent species on that scale should take the position of being friendly and supporting to lesser-advanced intelligent species by default, as a way to encourage other more-advanced species than them to take the same position. The real danger would be a super but unintelligent race doing the same (think "giant space ants"), since they wouldn't have philosophy department chairs.
- Moodles 7y agoWhy would that encourage any higher intelligence aliens to do the same?
- crooked-v 7y agoIf you're smart enough to think about it logically, you're probably also smart enough to realize there's always a bigger fish. The exception would be the fanatically oriented, as acting in opposition to logic is part of the basic premise.
- gpderetta 7y agoThink Rorschach from Blindsight.
- ssijak 7y agoI am a simple man, I am just afraid of sharks and box jellyfishes.