[ExI] Aliens are likely to be AI

[Tomaz Kristan]

> Will our cosmic cousins see us as nothing more than convenient
biofuel, a la the Matrix?

There is nothing of value as "biofuel". They could see us as a nuclear fuel
or sub-nuclear fuel or as a source of matter or something. But NEVER as
"biofuel".

Matrix movies made a tremendous damage in our thinkings and communications.
Wachowsky brothers are one of the biggest sources of confusion in the
history.

On Sat, Dec 20, 2014 at 10:53 AM, BillK <pharos at gmail.com> wrote:

> The Dominant Life Form in the Cosmos Is Probably Superintelligent Robots
> Written by Maddie Stone  December 19, 2014
>
> <
> http://motherboard.vice.com/read/the-dominant-life-form-in-the-cosmos-is-probably-superintelligent-robots
> >
>
> Quotes:
> The reason for all this has to do, primarily, with timescales. For
> starters, when it comes to alien intelligence, there's what Schneider
> calls the "short window observation"--the notion that, by the time any
> society learns to transmit radio signals, they're probably a hop-skip
> away from upgrading their own biology. It's a twist on the belief
> popularized by Ray Kurzweil that humanity's own post-biological future
> is near at hand.
>
> "As soon as a civilization invents radio, they're within fifty years
> of computers, then, probably, only another fifty to a hundred years
> from inventing AI," Shostak said. "At that point, soft, squishy brains
> become an outdated model."
> --------
>
> Begging a final question: How might superintelligent aliens view us?
> Will our cosmic cousins see us as nothing more than convenient
> biofuel, a la the Matrix? Or do they study us quietly from afar,
> abiding by a Star Trek-esque maxim of non-interference? Schneider
> doubts either. In fact, she reckons superintelligent aliens couldn't
> really care less about us.
>
> "If they were interested in us, we probably wouldn't be here," said
> Schneider. "My gut feeling is their goals and incentives are so
> different from ours, they're not going to want to contact us."
> --------
>
> "I'd have to agree with Susan on them not being interested in us at
> all," Shostak said. We're just too simplistic, too irrelevant. "You
> don't spend a whole lot of time hanging out reading books with your
> goldfish. On the other hand, you don't really want to kill the
> goldfish, either."
>
> So, if we want to meet our galactic peers, it looks like we'll
> probably have to keep seeking them out. That may take thousands or
> millions of years, but in the meanwhile, perhaps we'll upgrade our own
> intelligence enough to level the playing field.
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