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Comment author: Lumifer 08 September 2014 03:43:21PM 5 points [-]

Does mankind have a duty to warn extraterrestrial civilizations that we might someday unintentionally build an unfriendly super-intelligent AI that expands at the speed of light gobbling up everything in its path?

One response to such a warning would be to build a super-intelligent AI that expands at the speed of light gobbling up everything in its path first.

And when the two (or more) collide, it would make a nice SF story :-)

Comment author: solipsist 08 September 2014 10:39:35PM 3 points [-]

This wouldn't be a horrible outcome, because the two civilizations light-cones would never fully intersect. Neither civilization would fully destroy the other.

Comment author: James_Miller 08 September 2014 10:57:51PM 10 points [-]

Are you crazy! Think of all the potential paperclips that wouldn't come into being!!

Comment author: Lumifer 09 September 2014 06:40:22PM 2 points [-]

The light cones might not fully intersect, but humans do not expand at close to the speed of light. It's enough to be able to destroy the populated planets.

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