[ExI] Uploads as a group of AI agents

[John Clark]

On Sat, Mar 28, 2026 at 6:54 PM Keith Henson <hkeithhenson at gmail.com> wrote:

* >>> If there are aliens, it seems to me that they could have constructed
>>> a much larger data center in their home star system and not bothered to
>>> spread out.*
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>> * >> That doesn't explain why one ET hasn't sent out one Von Neumann
>> probe.*
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> * > Nope.  On the other hand, perhaps they think of themselves as
> Von Neuman probes.  The evidence can be read that they are spreading
> at 1/3rd of c.*
>

*Forget 1/3 c, if just one ET had been able to send just one Von Neumann
probe at 1/30 c then almost instantly (cosmically speaking) it would be
very obvious to anybody that the Milky Way had been engineered, but instead
we see a huge astronomical number of energy rich photons from hundreds of
billions of starsradiating uselessly into empty space; and the Milky Way is
not unique, even our largest telescopes can find no sign that any other
galaxy has been engineered either. That's why I think the evidence is
overwhelming that we are the only intelligent beings in the observable
universe.  *

* >>>  Communications between them [different uploaded civilizations or
>>> individuals around a star] would be (from their viewpoint) painfully slow.*
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>> * >>> But also extremely information rich. The communication channel
>>> would have lots of latency but also contain lots of data, far far more than
>>> anything in biology.*
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> * > True.  Only we don't see lasers, and the SETI people have not
> seen anything in the radio spectrum. *


*And that is yet another reason why I don't think the dimming of Tabby's
Star, or that of any other similar star, has anything to do with ET. *

* John K Clark*
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