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One day a swarm of self replicating probes will turn up and start building a Dyson sphere around our sun. The purpose is to power the alien equivalent of Bitcoi

One day a swarm of self replicating probes will turn up and start building a Dyson sphere around our sun. The purpose is to power the alien equivalent of Bitcoin mining. Another storyline I came up with is this: Imagine that an alien civilisation has the ability to send electromagnetic signals faster than light by some mechanism such as a micro wormhole but not ships and such. They still want to destroy other civilisations before they become a threat. They are able to connect to some unsecured wifi networks and start posting on forums. The username: Satoshi Nakamoto

me_me_mu_mu 5y ago
crypto is basically mimetic crack.
tasha0663 5y ago
Consider a Blockchain where proof-of-work mining takes place by solving a hard problem: for a given set of parameters, determine how long life will last in a realistic ancestor simulation. Consider also a play-to-earn game in the form of a realistic ancestor simulation where players grind menial portions of the game and sell the artifacts of their progress in a market backed by the aforementioned Blockchain. With apologies to Bostrom, we must accept exactly one of these as true: - that this is not technologically possible with current or future tech - no one would possibly do something this stupid - it is nearly 100% certain that our universe exists in someone's hair-brained web3 Ponzi scheme
- FabHK 5y ago
  You forgot the possibility that the outside civilisation is destroyed (eg by itself) before such simulation technology becomes technically feasible. Not sure whether I should welcome my simulator overlords or search for weaknesses in Bostrom's argument.
axiosgunnar 5y ago
Would torrent this movie
spookyuser 5y ago
Wow this is so weird, I've had this exact same idea before! I don't know if you're familiar with Dark Forest strikes from the Dark Forest book, but in the book, or the one after that, aliens use bombs that slow the speed of light in the space of single solar systems, to prevent civilizations from becoming threats. Always thought it would be funny if actual dark forest strikes were just the bitcoin whitepaper and bitcoin/crypto eventually use up all available resources before civilization can become a problem lol. Hope someone makes this an actual story someday.
krono 5y ago
This is gold! Considering Humanity's capacity and even drive for destruction (entropy incarnate, that's us), by having handed us this concept they will have certainly accelerated the destruction of potentially hostile civilisations... but also their own, the rest of the universe, and whatever surrounds it. There is some really good fiction to be found in this vein on https://old.reddit.com/r/HFY/ https://old.reddit.com/r/HFY/

me_me_mu_mu 5y ago

crypto is basically mimetic crack.

tasha0663 5y ago

Consider a Blockchain where proof-of-work mining takes place by solving a hard problem: for a given set of parameters, determine how long life will last in a realistic ancestor simulation. Consider also a play-to-earn game in the form of a realistic ancestor simulation where players grind menial portions of the game and sell the artifacts of their progress in a market backed by the aforementioned Blockchain. With apologies to Bostrom, we must accept exactly one of these as true: - that this is not technologically possible with current or future tech - no one would possibly do something this stupid - it is nearly 100% certain that our universe exists in someone's hair-brained web3 Ponzi scheme

FabHK 5y ago
You forgot the possibility that the outside civilisation is destroyed (eg by itself) before such simulation technology becomes technically feasible. Not sure whether I should welcome my simulator overlords or search for weaknesses in Bostrom's argument.

axiosgunnar 5y ago

Would torrent this movie

spookyuser 5y ago

Wow this is so weird, I've had this exact same idea before! I don't know if you're familiar with Dark Forest strikes from the Dark Forest book, but in the book, or the one after that, aliens use bombs that slow the speed of light in the space of single solar systems, to prevent civilizations from becoming threats. Always thought it would be funny if actual dark forest strikes were just the bitcoin whitepaper and bitcoin/crypto eventually use up all available resources before civilization can become a problem lol. Hope someone makes this an actual story someday.

krono 5y ago

This is gold! Considering Humanity's capacity and even drive for destruction (entropy incarnate, that's us), by having handed us this concept they will have certainly accelerated the destruction of potentially hostile civilisations... but also their own, the rest of the universe, and whatever surrounds it. There is some really good fiction to be found in this vein on https://old.reddit.com/r/HFY/ https://old.reddit.com/r/HFY/