Re: Bicyclist decapitated

On Tue, 30 Apr 2024 12:44:01 -0500, AMuzi <am@yellowjersey.org> wrote:
(chomp)

No one's claiming the UFO pilots are silicon based beings.

Pilots?  A sufficiently advanced UFO will probably be run by a
computer and navigated using AI (artificial intelligence).  Why give
control of the UFO to something with a limited service life, limited
intelligence and is asleep at the wheel 1/4th of the time?
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_error>

The point was merely that the universe is larger than we can
fully comprehend and life could possibly exist in ways
different from us.

True.  The problem is also getting worse because the universe is still
growing larger.  Bigger isn't always better.

If we ever meet galactic neighbors, they are unlikely to be like us,
but also very different from how science and social fiction portray
aliens.  Man's predictions of what heaven, hell, nirvana, various
utopias, foreign countries, etc will be like have consistently been
wrong.  Since robotic exploration of the neighboring planets started
about 40 years ago, the textbooks had to be adjusted to comply with
reality.  I'm not too worried about dealing with aliens that are
similar to humans.  I do worry about aliens that look like my worst
nightmare, are the size of insects or mountains, function along a
different set of dimensions, eat or disintegrate just about anything,
count with a base 60 number system and operate with different values,
assumptions, logic, priorities, ethics, etc.  "Kill them and eat them"
seems like an easier way to greet the aliens than try to communicate
and negotiate with something we'll probably never be able to
understand.



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