/sci/ - Science & Math

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This is nothing new. When LW was first sperging about misaligned AI, all I could think was "what if it already exists?"

I mean, what if aliens or hyper-terrestrials (beings of this planet but so advanced we would never notice or comprehend them), or just some combination of the concepts, already exist, already understand how to torture us indefinitely, and are doing exactly that. To paraphrase Clarke, it would appear no different from God.

Maybe that is the shit-test that is existence. Someone's way of weeding out the undesirables and growing the entertaining creatures. We could never know. Ants could never tell you what a boot is, or a foot, or a leg, but their entire domicile can be instantaneously wiped-out by one.

It just goes to show that if we follow the human example of the gap between us and other living organisms, its dismissive to say that gap has not occurred elsewhere in nature, only its not us on top of brainpower chart.

I have always wondered if there's not 60,000iq beings out there watching us swarm around on a popsicle stick. We already have evidence in our case in relation to the ants. Why not scale it up a few thousand orders? Just why the fuck not?