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This is excellent. Like the Dyson sphere, predicting signals for technologies that we can imagine but not yet construct seems like a great way to guide our sear
by largbae 2y ago
This is excellent. Like the Dyson sphere, predicting signals for technologies that we can imagine but not yet construct seems like a great way to guide our search for other life.
Now we need a team of smart folks to identify tearing or other processing anomalies in universe-scale simulations.
- ganzuul 2y agoIf you like spooky stuff there is lots of fun things to think about. Just off the cuff; We are predicting a soul upload technology with Neuralink etc. So an alien technosignature could look like: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/21_grams_experiment https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/21_grams_experiment This one is not rigorous but there are lots of other possibilities of this pattern.
- cydodon 2y agoIf measurement of the soul's weight gave 21, that can only be half of the answer[0], right? [0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phrases_from_The_Hitchhiker%27s_Guide_to_the_Galaxy#The_Answer_to_the_Ultimate_Question_of_Life,_the_Universe,_and_Everything_is_42 https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phrases_from_The_Hitchhiker%...
- trystero 2y ago2 souls united, that's the meaning of life.
- x3n0ph3n3 2y agoThat experiment was so poorly performed that it can be completely discounted.
- causality0 2y agoAt absolute best, it would be soul copying, not uploading.
- bluGill 2y agoAdvanced life. There is no particular reason to think there is life out there (if there is or not - both are extraordinary). If there is, there is no particular reason it is advanced - vs just some plants and animals living a life but not doing anything different from the first members of the species. (that is not advancing to where they might get a house)
- addaon 2y ago> There is no particular reason to think there is life out there (if there is or not - both are extraordinary) Well, no. One of those is ordinary (“commonplace or standard”). We just don’t know which.
- bluGill 2y agoAt this point in time either would be extraordinary. If someone provides convincing proof either way tomorrow, then in 100 years that would be ordinary.