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Comment author: [deleted] 06 January 2014 04:39:38PM 1 point [-]

My point is more that expansion of the strong AI would not occur at the speed of light, so there should be very distant but observable galactic-level civilizations of AIs changing the very nature of the regions they reside in, in ways that would be spectrally observable. Or, in those multiverses where a local AI respects some sort of prime directive, we may be left alone our immediate stellar neighborhood should nevertheless contain signs of extraterrestrial resource usage. So where are they?

Comment author: shminux 06 January 2014 05:18:30PM -1 points [-]

My point is more that expansion of the strong AI would not occur at the speed of light

How do you know that? Or why do you think it's a reasonable assumption?

so there should be very distant but observable galactic-level civilizations of AIs changing the very nature of the regions they reside in, in ways that would be spectrally observable.

How would we tell if a phenomenon is natural or artificial?

in those multiverses where a local AI respects some sort of prime directive, we may be left alone our immediate stellar neighborhood should nevertheless contain signs of extraterrestrial resource usage.

It would not be a good implementation of the prime directive if the signs of superior intelligences were obvious.

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