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Prolly has something to do with us nearing the singularity. It's an alien superintelligent machine civilization and they are here to welcome their soon to be bo
by emsign 3y ago
Prolly has something to do with us nearing the singularity. It's an alien superintelligent machine civilization and they are here to welcome their soon to be born new brothers. I think they might have nudged us for centuries to develop computers and prepared Earth for maximum exploitation. This strategy is the current iteration of their millenia old plan to change Earth from its current natural biodiverse state into a poisonous mining planet. They used open conflict in the past, but they weren't able to compete with humans, who have defeated them again and again in the past millenia even if it meant the destruction of their civilization by which knowledge of an alien invasion was usually lost or obscured and later falsified. This time however the aliens are trying a different approach. They let human society develop into a machine civilization all by themselves. It takes longer but it only requires careful technological and social nudging. The fact that we see so many of their probes flying around now means their takeover and big reveal is coming closer. Anyone interested in joining my cult?
- fnordpiglet 3y agoClearly a danger of generative AI if Sam Altman is to be believed. Unless Microsoft is given an exclusive monopoly on all AI research and commercialization we will keep seeing dangerous spherical UAPs.
- twic 3y agoThese probes are clearly being sent by Roko's Basilisk from the end of time to check up on who is helping it come into being and who is opposing it. Behave yourselves!
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- stringfood 3y agoNo but the idea of exterrestrials visiting us millenia ago, gauging our intelligence and then monitoring us is pretty awesome idea. I always thought considered that Roswell were aliens visiting us after radioactive decay was detected via spectrography. A more likely and less tantalizing answer is that people had spaceships on their mind starting in 1930's with V2 and all of a sudden we see an explosion in 'UFOs'
- AtlasBarfed 3y agoIt's about the only good scenario of contact with ET.
- breakyerself 3y ago40 years ago the same was said of the nuclear arms race. The base assumption you're making is that there's something to this. I don't think that's a safe assumption.
- akomtu 3y agoIt's hardly a cult. The plot you're describing has been known for a while, and we even have a movie about it: AvP. My only complaint about it is it presented aliens as dumb reptiles, despite a much bigger brain. Another movie - the Ascent of Jupiter - has explored this idea further. One of the scenes there is a brief glimpse into the civilization of reptiles on Jupiter: a flat hellish world with thick orange clouds instead of skies and a high tech brutalistic scenery.