You're looking at Less Wrong's discussion board. This includes all posts, including those that haven't been promoted to the front page yet. For more information, see About Less Wrong.

Jack comments on Convincing ET of our rationality - Less Wrong Discussion

2 Post author: TheRev 11 January 2011 05:32PM

You are viewing a comment permalink. View the original post to see all comments and the full post content.

Article Navigation

Comments (28)
Tags: communication rationality language et bayes

Comments (28)

You are viewing a single comment's thread. Show more comments above.

Comment author: Jack 12 January 2011 02:05:42AM 0 points [-]

I suppose I might try potential diagrams, maybe draw a harmonic oscillator potential and eigenfunctions. That's really just playing to my strengths, though, not seeking something that would be best understood.

How would the aliens even know what these were?

Comment author: Manfred 12 January 2011 06:52:45AM 0 points [-]

Well, if they had eyes they could probably figure it out pretty quickly. If I saw someone representing them by colors or something I'd probably catch on. I'd be willing to wager that representing lines in space by other lines on surfaces is pretty universal, if you're worried about the graph-like part.

Powered by Reddit Powered by Reddit