BenAlbahari comments on Undiscriminating Skepticism - Less Wrong

97 Post author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 14 March 2010 11:23PM

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Comment author: Clippy 15 March 2010 03:02:02AM 1 point [-]

I am skeptical of UFOs, not because I fear affiliating myself with the low-prestige people who believe in UFOs, but because I don't believe aliens would (a) travel across interstellar distances AND (b) hide all signs of their presence AND THEN (c) fly gigantic non-nanotechnological aircraft over our military bases with their exterior lights on.

Not good enough evidence. If alien ships actually got close enough to earth to observe, they would quickly notice that you annihilate each other based on minor differences in your makeup, realize that they are far more different, and then decide it's in their best interest to leave immediately before they are detected.

Just trust me on this one.

Comment author: BenAlbahari 15 March 2010 03:15:49AM 0 points [-]

I found it difficult to dig up any convincing claims in support of UFOs: Have aliens from outer space visited Earth?

As you can see so far, the claims on the "agree" side are frankly pretty embarrassing. Please suggest some good experts in favor of this hypothesis if you know of them.

Comment author: Clippy 15 March 2010 03:22:09AM 3 points [-]

I was only criticizing Editor:Eliezer_Yudkowksy's reasoning, not trying to argue that non-human intelligences exist (although they do).

Comment author: Rain 15 March 2010 03:54:05AM 1 point [-]

not trying to argue that non-human intelligences exist (although they do)

You're talking here about dolphins, pigs, dogs, etc.?

Comment author: arundelo 15 March 2010 01:26:58PM 4 points [-]

Remember that Clippy is a paperclip maximizing AI.

Comment author: Rain 15 March 2010 01:52:07PM 0 points [-]

I'd still like to see an enumerated list of what Clippy considers to be non-human intelligences, starting with those it considers the most intelligent by the measure it considers most appropriate.

Comment author: Clippy 15 March 2010 03:36:58PM 7 points [-]

Okay. Here is the enumerated list of what I consider to be non-human intelligences, ranked in order of decreasing intelligence, by the measure I deem most appropriate:

Clippys

Comment author: Larks 15 March 2010 04:35:10PM *  0 points [-]

The singularity is here already; Clippy's replicating!