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You know this never occurred to be before, but seams obvious in hindsight. It popped into my head while reading your comments. If you can flash a light bright
by jay_kyburz 3y ago
You know this never occurred to be before, but seams obvious in hindsight. It popped into my head while reading your comments.
If you can flash a light bright enough to be seen by other civilization you can communicate with them at light speed. Then once you convince your communication partners to build machines and run programs you send them, your AI's can "travel" at light speed.
Once the AI has arrived it can start communicating without the light speed lag and things really start moving. The AI could build UFO's locally using the science and tech of its own culture.
If your aliens are just data, light speed travel doesn't sound that far fetched.
- Eisenstein 3y agoUm, that's called 'radio'.
- jay_kyburz 3y agoHaha, sure, the revelation to me was that if your life is just data, light speed travel is easy.
- Eisenstein 3y agoI hope you have some very good data correction to go with that data transfer. Beaming light/radio into space is going to get a ton of interference and loss.
- thom 3y agoI don’t know what estimates exist for the bit rate of SETI signals, this paper seems to imply 0.01 bits per second: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0094576511001780 https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S00945... If we assume GPT4 is a trillion parameters, each 16 bits, then this would require 5000 years to transmit (quite aside from any error correction or the description of how the parameters should be arranged). I would hope that our AI would be able to bootstrap to FTL in that time.