BenAlbahari comments on Undiscriminating Skepticism - Less Wrong
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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.
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.
I was only criticizing Editor:Eliezer_Yudkowksy's reasoning, not trying to argue that non-human intelligences exist (although they do).
You're talking here about dolphins, pigs, dogs, etc.?
Remember that Clippy is a paperclip maximizing AI.
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.
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
The singularity is here already; Clippy's replicating!