[ExI] cool article by shostak

[Darin Sunley]

The AIs /are/ all over the galaxy. The probes hit Earth at some
indeterminate point in the geological past [the Cretaceous boundary stands
out as a plausible candidate], and we're living in a simulation. :)

On Wed, Nov 16, 2016 at 1:09 PM, spike <spike66 at att.net> wrote:

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> On 16 November 2016 at 18:20, spike wrote:
> >> Interesting commentary by SETI’s Seth Shostak:
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> http://www.space.com/34713-intelligent-aliens-machines-seti-search.html
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> >...I agree with the logic of this article, but there's something missing.
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> Why aren't these AI machines all over the galaxy?
> Why aren't they broadcasting?
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> What Shostak doesn't mention is the speedup in processing of these AIs and
> the consequences of that speedup.
> It would result in the physical universe appearing to be very slow, even
> 'dead'. And why would they try to communicate with the dead?
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> BillK
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> We have no way to model machine curiosity.  We talk a lot of machine
> intelligence and curiosity are part of human intelligence.  But it is easy
> enough to imagine one without the other.  I have written software scripts
> that go off and make all kinds of interesting mathematical discoveries, but
> I have yet to write one which goes off on its own, asking questions or
> wondering how the heck this or that.  I still hafta supply that part.
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> Perhaps curious intelligent creatures created artificial non-curious
> non-explorer non-expanding intelligence?
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> spike
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