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On some meta level I do wonder if aliens are just kinda boring now. I mean its motivation, if biological, likely won't breach what exists in earth's biosphere. (and if it does, readers are unlikely to comprehend it, not like most people comprehends living things on earth to begin with)This is in contrast to being able to generate new alien intelligences by writing a small paragraph into chatgpt with motivations far from what is constrained by biology. (and such a bot's intelligence is already incomprehensible and dangerous)And the idea that aliens are so stupid as to be outwitted by humans and other tropes feels like wish fulfillment no less absurd than "hit by truck and transported to alternate universe afterlife" genre.Having read some post-machine intelligence fiction, conflict may very well be philosophical and processing axioms over anything else. After all, compute substrate is a matter of tech and resources and not a serious issue, it is the software that really needs control.
On some meta level I do wonder if aliens are just kinda boring now. I mean its motivation, if biological, likely won't breach what exists in earth's biosphere. (and if it does, readers are unlikely to comprehend it, not like most people comprehends living things on earth to begin with)
This is in contrast to being able to generate new alien intelligences by writing a small paragraph into chatgpt with motivations far from what is constrained by biology. (and such a bot's intelligence is already incomprehensible and dangerous)
And the idea that aliens are so stupid as to be outwitted by humans and other tropes feels like wish fulfillment no less absurd than "hit by truck and transported to alternate universe afterlife" genre.
Having read some post-machine intelligence fiction, conflict may very well be philosophical and processing axioms over anything else. After all, compute substrate is a matter of tech and resources and not a serious issue, it is the software that really needs control.
