Stephen Hawking and Yuri Milner Announce $100M Initiative to Seek ET
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Stephen Hawking and Yuri Milner Announce $100M Initiative to Seek ET
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Re: Stephen Hawking and Yuri Milner Announce $100M Initiative to Seek ET
#2Wow. Thank you, Yuri!
I suspect even if this is unsuccessful at finding ET, it will do lots of awesome other things.
And if it is successful in finding ET, then it's probably the most significant possible discovery.
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#3one week Hawking warns about skynet-style AI. next week he insist of us go hunting it. good troll?
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#4Hawking wants to find them, but seemingly not reveal ourselves...
http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2010/apr/26/stephen...
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#5one week Hawking warns about skynet-style AI. next week he insist of us go hunting it. good troll?
It strikes me that the two are very different things. ET != AI.
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#6one week Hawking warns about skynet-style AI. next week he insist of us go hunting it. good troll?
Either that or early warning?
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#7one week Hawking warns about skynet-style AI. next week he insist of us go hunting it. good troll?
It strikes me that the two are very different things. ET != AI.
thanks for pointing this out,
it made sense in my head in the lines of:
super civilization creates AI, AI outlives civilization, humans find trace of super civilization, eventually establish contact with the AI
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#8one week Hawking warns about skynet-style AI. next week he insist of us go hunting it. good troll?
It strikes me that the two are very different things. ET != AI.
Well, they might not be the same thing or they might - or perhaps more likely of all, some kind of hybrid society with AI and natural intelligences.
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#9Interesting that SIGINT tools (zero sum at best, and probably negative sum) are basically going to be useful for something which extends the ears of humanity in a positive way.
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#10one week Hawking warns about skynet-style AI. next week he insist of us go hunting it. good troll?
It strikes me that the two are very different things. ET != AI.
Funny you say that:
The Dominant Life Form in the Cosmos Is Probably Superintelligent Robots
“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.”
That’s a welcome divergence from Steven Hawking’s claim that advanced aliens might be nomads, looking to strip resources from whatever planets they can, and that all efforts to contact said aliens may end in our own demise.
“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.”
http://motherboard.vice.com/read/the-dominant-life-form-in-t...
EDIT - HN discussion for that article, 212 days ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8773778